Environmental effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: a review

J Beyer, HC Trannum, T Bakke, PV Hodson… - Marine pollution …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill constituted an ecosystem-level injury in the
northern Gulf of Mexico. Much oil spread at 1100–1300 m depth, contaminating and …

Biosurfactants and their applications in the oil and gas industry: current state of knowledge and future perspectives

C Nikolova, T Gutierrez - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Surfactants are a group of amphiphilic chemical compounds (ie, having both hydrophobic
and hydrophilic domains) that form an indispensable component in almost every sector of …

Chemical dispersants can suppress the activity of natural oil-degrading microorganisms

S Kleindienst, M Seidel, K Ziervogel… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
During the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, the application of 7
million liters of chemical dispersants aimed to stimulate microbial crude oil degradation by …

Recent advances in chemical and biological degradation of spilled oil: a review of dispersants application in the marine environment

Z Zhu, F Merlin, M Yang, K Lee, B Chen, B Liu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Growing concerns over the risk of accidental releases of oil into the marine environment
have emphasized our need to improve both oil spill preparedness and response strategies …

Microbial Responses to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: From Coastal Wetlands to the Deep Sea

GM King, JE Kostka, TC Hazen… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico represents the largest marine
accidental oil spill in history. It is distinguished from past spills in that it occurred at the …

[图书][B] The use of dispersants in marine oil spill response

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2020 - books.google.com
Whether the result of an oil well blowout, vessel collision or grounding, leaking pipeline, or
other incident at sea, each marine oil spill will present unique circumstances and …

Differentiating the roles of photooxidation and biodegradation in the weathering of Light Louisiana Sweet crude oil in surface water from the Deepwater Horizon site

HP Bacosa, DL Erdner, Z Liu - Marine pollution bulletin, 2015 - Elsevier
We determined the contributions of photooxidation and biodegradation to the weathering of
Light Louisiana Sweet crude oil by incubating surface water from the Deepwater Horizon …

From surface water to the deep sea: a review on factors affecting the biodegradation of spilled oil in marine environment

HP Bacosa, SMB Ancla, CGLA Arcadio… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past century, the demand for petroleum products has increased rapidly, leading to
higher oil extraction, processing and transportation, which result in numerous oil spills in …

Machine learning-aided causal inference for unraveling chemical dispersant and salinity effects on crude oil biodegradation

Y Cao, Q Kang, B Zhang, Z Zhu, G Dong, Q Cai… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chemical dispersants have been widely applied to tackle oil spills, but their effects on oil
biodegradation in global aquatic systems with different salinities are not well understood …

The first decade of scientific insights from the Deepwater Horizon oil release

EB Kujawinski, CM Reddy, RP Rodgers… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster remains the largest single accidental release
of oil and gas into the ocean. During the 87-day release, scientists used oceanographic …