A couple of months ago, the world celebrated the fourth anniversary of the latest environmental disaster caused by an accidental oil spill. The Macondo Blowout, also called the BP Oil Spill, or Deepwater Horizon Incident, is the new jargon in the vocabulary of...
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Entendiendo los derrames de crudo y la importancia de la preparación
Ships, oil tankers, barges, oil and gas installations, pipelines, and commercial dumping account for the greatest number of oil spills. According to a Bloomberg report, oil enough to fill 692 Olympic-size swimming pools has been emptied into U.S. waters alone. The...
Métodos comunes para tratar los derrames de crudo
It is no secret that oil spills can be devastating when it comes to marine life. Saving the environment from the effects of an oil spill involves plenty of labor and equipment. For years, the oil containment industry has used a variety of equipment that includes...
Las técnicas básicas en respuesta a derrames de crudo
While everyone is aware of the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon disasters, there are numerous smaller oil spills that occur on a regular basis. Leakages in cargo ships and malfunction of equipment at facilities and refineries are disasters that can happen even...