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The Gulf Oil Spill [PDF]

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2011
The 2010 Gulf Oil spill was an occupational, environmental, and community health disaster. This review summarizes the contaminants of concern, toxicologic consequences for humans and the ecosystem, lessons for worker safety, and mental health consequences in the community.
Bernard D, Goldstein   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Electrobioremediation of oil spills [PDF]

open access: yesWater Research, 2017
Annually, thousands of oil spills occur across the globe. As a result, petroleum substances and petrochemical compounds are widespread contaminants causing concern due to their toxicity and recalcitrance. Many remediation strategies have been developed using both physicochemical and biological approaches.
DAGHIO, MATTEO   +9 more
openaire   +6 more sources

The Legacy of Oil Spills [PDF]

open access: yesWater, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2010
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on a British Petroleum (BP) Deep Water Horizon platform, and 2 days later, the platform collapsed. Eleven workers were killed, and oil has been gushing out ever since. Although the initial reports were that about 50,000 gal were being released per day, every few weeks, the estimates released to the American ...
Trevors, J. T., Saier, M. H.
openaire   +4 more sources

Determination of Oil Spill Chemical Concentrations in Nearshore Matrices

open access: yes, 2021
Marine oil spill incidents create concerns about human health risks, particularly in nearshore locations such as beaches used for recreation. To improve the timeliness of risk estimates during an oil spill, we need to expand modelling capacity for oil ...
Montas, Larissa   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Utilisation of Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery for Oil Spill Mapping: A Case Study of Balikpapan Bay Oil Spill

open access: yesJournal of Geospatial Information Science and Engineering, 2018
Oil spill is a great threat for marine ecosystem. Oil discharge has become a public concern in all over the world with the increase of marine traffics. Indonesian government has declared state of emergency over oil spill which devastated Balikpapan bay ...
Ratna Prastyani, Abdul Basith
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Change Impacts on Coastal and Offshore Petroleum Infrastructure and the Associated Oil Spill Risk: A Review

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
Climate change has been observed worldwide in recent decades, posing challenges to the coastal and offshore oil and gas infrastructure. It is crucial to identify how climate change affects these infrastructures and the associated oil spill risk.
Jinxin Dong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

CranSLIK v2.0: improving the stochastic prediction of oil spill transport and fate using approximation methods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Oil spill models are used to forecast the transport and fate of oil after it has been released. CranSLIK is a model that predicts the movement and spread of a surface oil spill at sea via a stochastic approach.
Moulitsas, Irene   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

A Review on Oil Spill Clean-up Using Bio-Sorbent Materials with Special Emphasis on Utilization of Kenaf Core Fibers

open access: yesBioResources, 2021
Thousands of oil spill incidents regrettably have occurred on a daily basis around the globe. Oil spills are a form of pollution that poses major catastrophic threats to marine ecosystems.
Jen Yen Tan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

DNA adducts in fish following an oil spill exposure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
On 12 December 1999, one third of the load of the Erika tanker, amounting to about 10,000 t crude oil flowed into sea waters close to the French Atlantic Coast.
Castegnaro, Marcel   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Integrated Hydrodynamic and Oil Spill Modeling using OILMAP Software for Environment Protection of Oil Spill in Cilacap Regency

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
Environmental impact due to oil spill comes from several activities such as oil and gas business unit, port facilities, and shipping line. Cilacap regency as one of the areas with high marine productivity in Indonesia has a history of oil spill incident ...
Tri Rezki Chiquita   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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