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Long-term ecological impacts from oil spills: comparison of
The long-term ecological impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) are compared to two extensively studied and more recent large spills: Deepwater Horizon (DWH) and the Hebei Spirit oil spill (HSOS). Each of the three spills differed in magnitude and duration of oil released, environmental conditions, ecological communities, response and clean up measures, and ecological recovery.
A perspective on oil spills: What we should have ...
2. Methods. With an emphasis on key oil spill incidents from 1967 to-date, the study approach was chronological but grouped into phases defined by growth in knowledge and the changing public reactions to spills. Concerns ranged from scientific to socio-economic, political and global development issues.
Potential impacts of an impending oil spill
Nature Sustainability 4 , 1023-1024 ( 2021) Cite this article. Our understanding of the impacts of oil spills highlights the urgency of preventing them. A new study considers public health and ...
Oil spills characteristics, detection, and recovery methods: A
We have noticed a lack of comprehensive approaches to oil spills. Decentralized research efforts, disconnected at first glance, may lead to inefficiencies to risk management and whenever an oil spill occurs. This paper proposes a systematic risk-based view of oil spills (Fig. 1). We gather information on why oil spills are harmful, how to ...
Ecological Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Implications for
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, initiating the discharge of over 800 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over approximately three months (Table 1 and Figure 1).The DWH spill was the largest environmental disaster and response effort in U.S. history and the second largest oil spill in human history (Levy and Gopalakrishnan 2010; National Commission 2011 ...
The first decade of scientific insights from the Deepwater Horizon oil
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster was the largest single accidental release of oil and gas to the ocean. Over 87 days, oil, gas and dispersants impacted 11,000 km 2 of ocean surface and 2,000 ...
Oil Spills and Human Health: Contributions of the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was established in 2010 with $500 million in funding provided by British Petroleum over a 10-year period to support research on the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and recovery.
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill
In the event of Yemen's Red Sea ports closing within two weeks of the spill, food aid will be disrupted for an estimated 5.7 (3.7-8.1) million people who currently require food assistance. We ...
The Complexity of Spills: The Fate of the Deepwater Horizon Oil
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest, longest-lasting, and deepest oil accident to date in US waters. As oil and natural gas jetted from release points at 1,500-m depth in the northern Gulf of Mexico, entrainment of the surrounding ocean water into a buoyant plume, rich in soluble hydrocarbons and dispersed microdroplets of oil, created a deep (1,000-m) intrusion layer. Larger ...
THE IMPACT OF OIL SPILLS ON THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Oil spills also have a. cascading impact on the marine ecosystem, affecting trophic structures and interactions. Research by Peterson et al. (2003) and Culbertson et al. (2008) has shown that the ...
Nano-enhanced Bioremediation for Oil Spills: A Review
Nano-enhanced bioremediation is a new field of study, and more research is undeniably needed. The interdisciplinary combination offers new opportunities and novel functionalities such as. 1. Sustainable and environmentally friendly materials that can be used as alternatives to traditional post oil spill response.
Microbial remediation of oil-contaminated shorelines: a review
Frequent marine oil spills have led to increasingly serious oil pollution along shorelines. Microbial remediation has become a research hotspot of intertidal oil pollution remediation because of its high efficiency, low cost, environmental friendliness, and simple operation. Many microorganisms are able to convert oil pollutants into non-toxic substances through their growth and metabolism ...
Oil spills
The largest marine oil spill in all of U.S. history was the Deepwater Horizon spill. On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people. Before it was capped three months later, approximately 134 million gallons of oil had spilled into the ocean.
Oil Spills: Causes, Consequences, Prevention, and Countermeasures
The rate of spillage has decreased in the past 10 years, even with increased oil production, transportation, and consumption. Despite this, spill experts estimate that 30%-50% of oil spills are ...
Oil spills and fish health: exposing the heart of the matter
Intensive environmental monitoring and research following the spill engendered a new understanding of the near- and long-term impacts of oil spills on individual organisms, populations, and ...
Oil and Chemical Spill Research Publications
Scientists from the Emergency Response Division (ERD) of NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration frequently conduct research on oil and chemical spill topics, both within NOAA and with other agencies and partners. Below is a sampling of their publications, grouped by year. To find more of ERD's scientific publications, you may want to check these sources:
Oil Spills Research Recent Publications
Oil Spills Research Recent Publications June 2018 Microbial degradation of Cold Lake Blend and Western Canadian ... -Situ Droplet Size Distribution and Numerical Modeling to Assess Subsurface Dispersant Injection as a Deepwater Blowout Oil Spill Response Option and Evaluation of Oil Fluorescence Characteristics to Improve Forensic Response ...
The longer spilled oil lingers in freshwater, the more persistent
While large oil spills are highly publicized, every year there are many smaller-scale spills into lakes, rivers and oceans. And, according to research published in ACS' Energy & Fuels, the longer that oil remains in freshwater, the more chemical changes it undergoes, creating products that can persist in the environment.
Study shows the longer spilled oil lingers in freshwater, the more
Approximately 600,000 gallons of oil were accidentally spilled into the environment in 2023, according to the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, a group that monitors oil spills.
Oil Spill Research
Oil Spill Research. One of EPA's top priorities is to help the nation be better prepared to respond to oil and fuel spills that threaten public health and natural ecosystems. The work supports the high-priority, immediate efforts of emergency response teams, as well as decades long monitoring of the impact of spilled oil. Agency researchers and ...
Considerations for Scientists Getting Involved in Oil Spill Research
The scale of the spill and the unprecedented use of dispersants challenged scientists familiar with oil spill research, but also drew in many scientists new to hydrocarbon studies. The response to DWH, as with other oil spills, was centered on environmental and human safety concerns as mandated by the US Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act ...
Environmental News Network
While large oil spills are highly publicized, every year there are many smaller-scale spills into lakes, rivers and oceans. And, according to research published in ACS' Energy & Fuels, the longer that oil remains in freshwater, the more chemical changes it undergoes, creating products that can persist in the environment.
Bioremediation of soils saturated with spilled crude oil
The greatest man-made oil spill was associated with the Second Gulf-War ... National Research Council (NRC) Using oil spill dispersants on the sea National. Academy Press, Washington DC, https ...
A Review of the Prospects, Efficacy, and Sustainability of
Numerous marine oil spill incidents and their environmental catastrophe have raised the concern of the research community and environmental agencies on the topic of the offshore crude oil spill.
Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream ...
The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...
BP paid just $1,300 each to 79% of the Deepwater oil spill victims
To break up oil, roughly 1.8 million gallons of Corexit were dropped from planes and sprayed from boats — far more than previous U.S. oil spills. The manufacturer said it was safer than dish soap.
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The long-term ecological impacts of the Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS) are compared to two extensively studied and more recent large spills: Deepwater Horizon (DWH) and the Hebei Spirit oil spill (HSOS). Each of the three spills differed in magnitude and duration of oil released, environmental conditions, ecological communities, response and clean up measures, and ecological recovery.
2. Methods. With an emphasis on key oil spill incidents from 1967 to-date, the study approach was chronological but grouped into phases defined by growth in knowledge and the changing public reactions to spills. Concerns ranged from scientific to socio-economic, political and global development issues.
Nature Sustainability 4 , 1023-1024 ( 2021) Cite this article. Our understanding of the impacts of oil spills highlights the urgency of preventing them. A new study considers public health and ...
We have noticed a lack of comprehensive approaches to oil spills. Decentralized research efforts, disconnected at first glance, may lead to inefficiencies to risk management and whenever an oil spill occurs. This paper proposes a systematic risk-based view of oil spills (Fig. 1). We gather information on why oil spills are harmful, how to ...
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, initiating the discharge of over 800 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over approximately three months (Table 1 and Figure 1).The DWH spill was the largest environmental disaster and response effort in U.S. history and the second largest oil spill in human history (Levy and Gopalakrishnan 2010; National Commission 2011 ...
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) disaster was the largest single accidental release of oil and gas to the ocean. Over 87 days, oil, gas and dispersants impacted 11,000 km 2 of ocean surface and 2,000 ...
The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was established in 2010 with $500 million in funding provided by British Petroleum over a 10-year period to support research on the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and recovery.
In the event of Yemen's Red Sea ports closing within two weeks of the spill, food aid will be disrupted for an estimated 5.7 (3.7-8.1) million people who currently require food assistance. We ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest, longest-lasting, and deepest oil accident to date in US waters. As oil and natural gas jetted from release points at 1,500-m depth in the northern Gulf of Mexico, entrainment of the surrounding ocean water into a buoyant plume, rich in soluble hydrocarbons and dispersed microdroplets of oil, created a deep (1,000-m) intrusion layer. Larger ...
Oil spills also have a. cascading impact on the marine ecosystem, affecting trophic structures and interactions. Research by Peterson et al. (2003) and Culbertson et al. (2008) has shown that the ...
Nano-enhanced bioremediation is a new field of study, and more research is undeniably needed. The interdisciplinary combination offers new opportunities and novel functionalities such as. 1. Sustainable and environmentally friendly materials that can be used as alternatives to traditional post oil spill response.
Frequent marine oil spills have led to increasingly serious oil pollution along shorelines. Microbial remediation has become a research hotspot of intertidal oil pollution remediation because of its high efficiency, low cost, environmental friendliness, and simple operation. Many microorganisms are able to convert oil pollutants into non-toxic substances through their growth and metabolism ...
The largest marine oil spill in all of U.S. history was the Deepwater Horizon spill. On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people. Before it was capped three months later, approximately 134 million gallons of oil had spilled into the ocean.
The rate of spillage has decreased in the past 10 years, even with increased oil production, transportation, and consumption. Despite this, spill experts estimate that 30%-50% of oil spills are ...
Intensive environmental monitoring and research following the spill engendered a new understanding of the near- and long-term impacts of oil spills on individual organisms, populations, and ...
Scientists from the Emergency Response Division (ERD) of NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration frequently conduct research on oil and chemical spill topics, both within NOAA and with other agencies and partners. Below is a sampling of their publications, grouped by year. To find more of ERD's scientific publications, you may want to check these sources:
Oil Spills Research Recent Publications June 2018 Microbial degradation of Cold Lake Blend and Western Canadian ... -Situ Droplet Size Distribution and Numerical Modeling to Assess Subsurface Dispersant Injection as a Deepwater Blowout Oil Spill Response Option and Evaluation of Oil Fluorescence Characteristics to Improve Forensic Response ...
While large oil spills are highly publicized, every year there are many smaller-scale spills into lakes, rivers and oceans. And, according to research published in ACS' Energy & Fuels, the longer that oil remains in freshwater, the more chemical changes it undergoes, creating products that can persist in the environment.
Approximately 600,000 gallons of oil were accidentally spilled into the environment in 2023, according to the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, a group that monitors oil spills.
Oil Spill Research. One of EPA's top priorities is to help the nation be better prepared to respond to oil and fuel spills that threaten public health and natural ecosystems. The work supports the high-priority, immediate efforts of emergency response teams, as well as decades long monitoring of the impact of spilled oil. Agency researchers and ...
The scale of the spill and the unprecedented use of dispersants challenged scientists familiar with oil spill research, but also drew in many scientists new to hydrocarbon studies. The response to DWH, as with other oil spills, was centered on environmental and human safety concerns as mandated by the US Clean Water Act, the Oil Pollution Act ...
While large oil spills are highly publicized, every year there are many smaller-scale spills into lakes, rivers and oceans. And, according to research published in ACS' Energy & Fuels, the longer that oil remains in freshwater, the more chemical changes it undergoes, creating products that can persist in the environment.
The greatest man-made oil spill was associated with the Second Gulf-War ... National Research Council (NRC) Using oil spill dispersants on the sea National. Academy Press, Washington DC, https ...
Numerous marine oil spill incidents and their environmental catastrophe have raised the concern of the research community and environmental agencies on the topic of the offshore crude oil spill.
The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...
To break up oil, roughly 1.8 million gallons of Corexit were dropped from planes and sprayed from boats — far more than previous U.S. oil spills. The manufacturer said it was safer than dish soap.