Advances in Understanding the Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons Room Palomino A/B/C Co-Chairs: S. Larter and A. Wilhelms
3:15 --	Introductory Remarks
3:20 --	H. Wilkes, A. Vieth, A. K. Scherf, J. ü. Rullkötter, R. Di Primio, B. Horsfield: Bioavailability – the Crucial Control in Sequential Petroleum Alteration
3:40 --	C. M. Aitken, M. Jones, S. Larter, A. Rowan, I. M. Head: Geochemical Markers of Anaerobic Biodegradation in Crude Oils
4:00 --	A. K. Rowan, C. M. Aitken, D. M. Jones, H. Huang, M. Fowler, J. Cody, S. R. Larter, I. M. Head: Archaea Related to Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizers are Resident in a Biodegraded Subsurface Petroleum Reservoir
4:20 --	G. Zhu, S. Zhang, J. Dai, Q. Jin, L. Zhang, J. Li: Shallow Gas Accumulations in the Neogene Strata of the Jiyang Superdepression, Bohai Bay Basin
4:40 --	S. Larter, H. Huang, B. Bennett, M. Jones, I. Head, J. Adams, T. Oldenburg, C. Riediger, M. Fowler, D. Coombe: Progress and Problems in Assessing Subsurface Petroleum Biodegradation- a Key Process in the Origin of Deep Water Oil and Gas Accumulations and the Volumetrically Important Tar Sands of Foreland Basins