Environmental Fate of Toxic Volatile Organics from Oil Spills in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria

Over the years, environmental degradation of ecological resources from crude oil pollution and its human health impacts is receiving more global attention. The utilization models capable predicting fate, transport, toxicity chemicals in spilt can provide essential knowledge required to deal with complexity associated fate volatile petroleum environment. This paper explores toxic organics an spill Niger Delta Region Nigeria. Results literature implicated sabotage operational failures pipelines as primary causes spillages. generation a fugacity model using EPI Suite™ revealed that Koc values greatly influence behavior BTN. Benzene, Toluene, Naphthalene (BTN) were partitioned into three compartments based on organic-carbon partitioning coefficient (Koc). (Koc) was computed function soil-water distribution (Kd) percentage organic matter (%OM). used determining possible risk posed delicate resources. Aquatic toxicology estimation Ecological Structural Activity Relationship all not even at over-estimated values. research established usefulness screening level modeling tools assessing hence helpful developing site-specific for monitoring environment, which assist governments, policymakers, industries designing appropriate regional disaster management plans.