The use of surface and subsea dispersants during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Resource Information

The work The use of surface and subsea dispersants during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The use of surface and subsea dispersants during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Statement of responsibility

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

Title variation

Use of surface and subsea dispersants during the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Creator

• United States, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
• United States, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

Subject

• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill (2010)
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Environmental aspects
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Environmental aspects
• Dispersing agents
• Dispersing agents -- Environmental aspects
• Dispersing agents -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Dispersing agents -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Dispersing agents -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Dispersing agents -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Environmental impact statements
• Environmental impact statements
• Environmental impact statements
• Environmental impact statements
• Gulf of Mexico
• Oil spills -- Cleanup
• Oil spills -- Cleanup -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Oil spills -- Cleanup -- Mexico, Gulf of
• 2010

Genre

• Environmental impact statements
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"This working paper examines the issues raised by the use of dispersants in the Deepwater Horizon spill. Dispersants change the distribution, not the amount, of oil within a marine environment. They are chemicals typically applied directly to oil on the water surface in order to break the oil into small droplets that can then mix with water below the surface. The dispersed oil is rapidly diluted, mixing both vertically and horizontally in the water column.1 While this alleviates high concentrations at the surface, it may expose organisms to lower, but more widespread, concentrations of oil"--Page 1

Member of

• Staff working paper (United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling), no. 4
• HeinOnline Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions & Other Advisory Bodies Library
• HeinOnline Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions and Other Advisory Bodies
• Staff working paper (United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling) ;, no. 4
• HeinOnline

Cataloging source

OLA

Government publication

federal national government publication

Index

no index present

LC call number

TD427.P4

LC item number

U6 2011 ONLINE

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Staff working paper

Series volume

no. 4

Target audience

specialized