BIT’s 2nd Annual World Congress of Petroleum Microbiology (WCP-2011) was hold successfully in Dalian World EXPO Center, China during April 25-27, 2009. The conference was supported by Chinese Petroleum Society, World Energy Council (WEC), and MEOR Key Laboratory. This year's congress has obtained highly focus and extensive attentions throughout the world. Honorable leaders and distinguished guests worldwide have come all the way to attend this congress.

The participants of the conference had a good chance to hear from the renowned keynote speakers
Dr. Tadayuki Imanaka, Professor, Ritsumeikan University Member, Science Council of Japan, Japan; Dr. Jing Zhao, Vice President, Biteomics Inc., Dalian, China; Dr. Hans H. Richnow, Head of Department of Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Member of the Geochemical Society, Germany; Dr. Jun Yao, Deputy Dean, Department of Environment Science and Technology, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China; Dr. Andreas P. Loibner, Professor at BOKU, Vienna, Head of Inst Env Biotechn, Member of ÖVA, Austria; Dr. Abdel Ghaly, Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are confident in organizing WCP-2012 which would be better and more successful than WCP-2011.