Any chemical compound introduction in the soil, impact in bacterial community. This work aimed to observe the changes in the bacterial community of a soil that was contaminated with hydrocarbons (gasoline, diesel, oil and mixtures 1: 1 diesel-oil and 1: 1: 1 gasoline-diesel-oil). Microcosms were considered that were followed by mineralization, bacterial count, determination of TPH and acid extraction to monitor the bacterial community. There were disturbances in the composition of fatty acids of the bacterial community in all treatments. The addition of nutrients in the control system produces an increase in bacterial count and the system that best degraded was the system with diesel alone, the presence of hydrocarbons produced a grouping of samples with oil and mixtures in the PCA diagram.

Any chemical compound introduction in the soil, impact in bacterial community. This work aimed to observe the changes in the bacterial community of a soil that was contaminated with hydrocarbons (gasoline, diesel, oil and mixtures 1: 1 diesel-oil and 1: 1: 1 gasoline-diesel-oil). Microcosms were considered that were followed by mineralization, bacterial count, determination of TPH and acid extraction to monitor the bacterial community. There were disturbances in the composition of fatty acids of the bacterial community in all treatments. The addition of nutrients in the control system produces an increase in bacterial count and the system that best degraded was the system with diesel alone, the presence of hydrocarbons produced a grouping of samples with oil and mixtures in the PCA diagram.

La goma xantano es utilizada en la industria hidrocarburífera para la extracción terciaria del petróleo. En su utilización en la cuenca del Golfo San Jorge, se observaron inconvenientes con la perdida de estructura del gel que se forma. Se buscó el agente causal de la perdida de estructura del gel. Se aisló e identifico a Bacillus pumilus como la bacteria capaz de crecer utilizando la goma xantano como única fuente de carbono y energía, modificando la viscosidad del gel y así cambiando sus propiedades.

Xanthan gum is used in the oil industry for the tertiary extraction of petroleum. In its use in the basin of the Gulf of San Jorge, there were problems with the loss of gum structure. Strain identified by Bacillus pumilus was isolated from oil water industry and was grown in the medium with xanthan as carbon source. This change modifies the viscosity of the gum and thus changing its properties.