New view of dispersants used after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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News Release 17-083
New view of dispersants used after Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Study offers insights into dispersants' human health benefits

August 28, 2017

New research has uncovered an added dimension to the decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants above the crippled seafloor oil well during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

The dispersants, scientists have found, may have significantly reduced the amount of harmful gases in the air at the sea surface -- diminishing health risks for emergency responders and enabling them to keep working to stop the spill and clean it up sooner.

The results were published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research team included Jonas Gros, Scott Socolofsky, Anusha Dissanayake and Inok Jun of Texas A&M University; Lin Zhao and Michel Boufadel of the New Jersey Institute of Technology; Christopher Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and J. Samuel Arey of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.

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[SonofDonald]

1. But they don't "cure" the problem

Dispersants encapsulate the oil and sink it to the ocean floor, where it sits right on top of marine life, it's not good for life.

But then again there's so much oil down there and in the water column already, every ship that has sank since the age of bunker oil and Diesel engines began leaks into the ocean.

Before MARPOL went into effect where do you think ships got rid of their waste oil?.

Yup, they pumped it right over the side into the ocean, this is not up to discussion, it's a fact, things changed after the Exxon Valdez incident and ships must discharge waste oil onshore now, but back in the day.........

The unmentioned way it used to be.