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Oil Spills In The Ocean

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Oil Spills in the Ocean and Oil Pollution - Seas are no longer water. Spills can be caused by. Optical Remote Sensing Provides Ocean Oil Spill Data Burning is sometimes also used in treating oiled marshes. Oil spills in the ocean . The limitations of oil-eating microbes During the clean-up operations of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico only 15 to 25 of oil was successfully removed through mechanical methods such as mechanical recovery and burning of the spilled oil. People making mistakes or being careless. The Atlantic Empress disaster released an estimated 90 million gallons of oil into the Atlantic Ocean some 16 km 10 miles off the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Oceanic oil spills became a major environmental problem in the 1960s chiefly as a result of intensified petroleum exploration and production on continental shelves and the use of supertankers capable of. Oil spills are deadly for marine creatures in the oceans. Oil sp...