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Crude biosurfactant helps the biodegradation of hydrocarbon using biosurfactnat producing bacteria to gain better access to their hydrophobic substrates since it bring reduction of surface tension of the marine ecosystem around the bacterium. In the present study, crude oil degradation with mineral salt medium (MSM) the Infrared spectrum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas stutzeri, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus licheniformis and control which produce biosurfactant was confirmed by FTIR analysis. The result on bacterial cell growth in all the experiments revealed that biosurfactant producing bacterial cells utilized crude oil as the carbon and energy source which was evident from cell growth observed with experimental Set up exhibited by extraction of crude oil revealed 81.4%, 85.6%, 77.2% and 68.3% of crude oil biodegradation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas stutzeri, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus licheniformis, standard and control. 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