Petroleum hydrocarbons are the most common environmental pollutants in the world and oil spills pose a great hazard to terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Oil pollution may arise either accidentally or operationally whenever oil is produced, transported, stored and processed or used at sea or on land. Oil spills are a major menace to the environment as they severely damage the surrounding ecosys...

Large oil spills are dramatic perturbations on marine ecosystems, and seabirds are one of the worst affected organisms in such events. It has been argued that oil spills may have important long-term consequences on marine organisms, but supporting evidence remains scarce. The European shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) was strongly impacted at population level by the Prestige oil spill, the bigge...

This paper introduces an ongoing EU research project called EU-MOP, which involves the design and evaluation of an intelligent and efficient robot system to respond to oil spills. The EU-MOP project addresses both unit and system level (i.e. unit design and emergency response topics) so as to draft a complete proposal/solution regarding oil spillage. The paper defines the objectives of the proj...

Oils spills broach high degree of pollution into the “blue” bodies which are considered fatal for the water ecosystem. So these oil spills need to be spotted at right time to prevent this disaster pursue. Many techniques are very actively inculcated for the same. Synchronous Aperture Radars (SAR) which is a space borne technique is primarily used for this purpose. Techniques which were used a w...

AFTER I WAS CALLED UPON IN 2010, AS DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, TO HELP WITH well control and fl ow estimation for the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, I reviewed what had been learned from the Exxon Valdez (EV) oil spill. Although EV and DWH differed in their spill characteristics and impacts, I suspected that insight gained in the decades since EV could help guide how to best in...

Oil is the most widely distributed source of energy in the world and the largest-scaled environmental pollutant. Oil, oil products, and oil-containing industrial wastes pollution is ranked second place after radioactive pollution on account of their harmful action to ecosystems (Chernyakhovsky et al., 2004). Oil deposits in Russia are mainly located in the northern regions of the European part ...

The purpose of this article is to present the development of a wind farm, with a condition monitoring system (CMS) based on control charts as the algorithm, centred on a new index, to prevent soil pollution by oil spills in wind farms. To this end, temperature sensors can be considered as one of the more significant sensors to be employed in this study, because the information obtained with reg...

1.1.1. Petroleum fuels It is estimated that between 1.7 and 8.8 million tons of petroleum hydrocarbons are released into the marine environment each year, with a best estimate of 3.2 million tons per year. Although major oil spills, like the Exxon-Valdez spill of 1989 or last summer’s Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, garner much media and citizen attention, you may be surprised to...