Pune, September 24 In what could prove to be a path-breaking discovery for the Oil exploration and production business, scientists at Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have identified environment friendly bacteria that allows extraction of oil at temperatures more than 90 degrees Celsius. Even as microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) methods are being used by oil companies at the commercial level, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has decided to seize the initiative and go in for field trials by attempting to produce oil at temperature levels above 90 degrees C. ONGC, having recovered 40,000 tonnes of oil from 100 defunct wells around Ahmedabad and Assam in the last two years, is now contemplating field trials with the new technology. Dr T R Mishra, General Manager, Institute of Reservoir Studies, ONGC, when contacted in Ahmedabad told The Indian Express that the technology devised by ARI scientists was showing success at the laboratory level and soon field trials will be taken up.