There are a number of reasons that you may want to do a test for microbiologically influenced bacteria (MIC) in your water:   1. When water is the source water for a pressure test. To make sure that you do not infect your pipeline or equipment with water that contains MIC bacteria.   2. As a monitoring tool. To determine if your current MIC mitigation is performing.   3. Water collected at valves and at the end of pig runs. To determine if MIC bacteria exist in your pipeline.   4. Production water. To determine if the water being produced from your natural gas and/or oil well contains insitu MIC bacteria.   5. Tank batteries should be tested for MIC to determine, if present or future MIC corrosion may be taking place, destroying valuable assets.   6. Production "separators" to determine, if MIC bacteria is present within the separator.   7.  Frac tanks should be tested for MIC before fracing or acidizing, to determine if MIC bacteria is present. This will tell you if mitigation is needed before introducing the water to the formation.   8. Any natural body of water used in fracing and acidizing of natural gas and oil wells.   9. Any well "kill" water should be tested for MIC.    10. Drilling mud should be tested, to assure MIC bacteria is not present.   11.  Barge and tanker contents, to assure MIC corrosion is not occurring in the vessel.   12. Subsea pipelines, to assure MIC corrosion is not occurring internally.   13. Any source water used in production, pipeline, refinery and transportation of oil and natural gas products.   Do you have any questions regarding water testing? Please email us at Support@MIC-Tek.com  or call us at 01.303.587.3325