Identification of cultivable bacterial strains producing biosurfactants/bioemulsifiers isolated from an Algerian oil refinery.

Algerian petrochemical industrial areas are usually running spills and leakages of hydrocarbons, which constitutes a major source of toxic compounds in soil such as aromatic hydrocarbons. In this paper, samples of crude oil-polluted soil were collected from Skikda's oil refinery and were subjected to mono and polyaromatic hydrocarbons threshold assessment. Soil physicochemical parameters were determined for each sample to examine their response to pollution.