An oil dispersant is a mixture of emulsifiers and solvents that helps break oil into small droplets following an oil spill. Small droplets are easier...

immiscible liquids like water and oil. Natural suspensions like milk and latex contain substances that act as dispersants. Automotive engine oils contain...

from the spreading oil utilizing skimmer ships, floating booms, controlled burns and 1,840,000 US gal (7,000 m3) of oil dispersant. Due to the months-long...

Corexit (often styled COREXIT) is a product line of oil dispersants used during oil spill response operations. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company...

injection of dispersant directly into oil at the source". Dispersants are said to facilitate the digestion of the oil by microbes. Mixing the dispersants with...

use of dispersants to clean up spills, thus Exxon did not require permission to use them, and that, in fact, Exxon had not had enough dispersant on hand...

the Deepwater Horizon oil spill for May 2010. May 1 Two military C-130 Hercules aircraft were employed to spray oil dispersant. May 2 Obama meets with...

done in low wind, and can cause air pollution. Dispersants can be used to dissipate oil slicks. A dispersant is either a non-surface active polymer or a...

available alternatives" and that "dispersant-oil mixtures are generally no more toxic to the aquatic test species than oil alone." August 4 – BP reports that...

additives, detergents, dispersants, and, for multi-grade oils, viscosity index improvers.[citation needed] The main function of motor oil is to reduce friction...

[citation needed] Among its products is Corexit - an oil dispersant widely used in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The company traces its origins to 1928 in...

era. Mucilage from prickly pear may work as a natural, non-toxic dispersant for oil spills. Mexico has a semicommercial pilot plant for biofuel production...

The spill was also notable for the volume of Corexit oil dispersant used to help disperse the oil. Although approved by the EPA, no toxicology studies...

on Effectiveness of Oil Spill Dispersants (National Research Council Marine Board) (1989). Using Oil Spill Dispersants on the Sea. National Academies...

the oil spill, Petrotrin has opted to use the Corexit 9500 dispersant that was employed BP in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The purpose of oil dispersants...

nearly 149,000 gallons of oil dispersant to break up the oil. The Deepwater Horizon mission was the first time the US used the oil dispersing capability of...

lives were changed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The film argues that BP has utilized the oil dispersant Corexit in the Gulf to create the illusion...

1000 or Dispersit is a dispersant used for oil spills, produced by U.S. Polychemical Corporation. It combines a predominantly oil-soluble surfactant (such...

up the oil slick. Booms, including those made from coconut husks, and dispersants were also used after divers found the cargo was leaking from the valves...

decided not to use dispersants in sensitive areas or the coastal fringe where water depth was less than 50 metres (160 ft). Had dispersant been applied from...

Retrieved 6 July 2020. "Supertanker Afran Zodiac spills oil off Ireland, chemical dispersant use (1975) - on Newspapers.com". Corsicana Daily Sun. 12...

used boats and airplanes to spray oil-spill dispersants, 0,612 litres of Slickgone NS and 6,930 litres of Super-Dispersant 25, which are permitted by the...

and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Gulf killifish is currently being used to test the effects of oil and oil dispersants on the physiology of marine...

abundant hydrocarbon vapors, and both the oil contractors and the Coast Guard began using chemical dispersants on the oil near the shore.: 54–5  On the morning...

and Salvage Corporation (MTSC) – reached the oil spill area and began spraying oil dispersants. The oil spill affected the following: ten municipalities...

(30–60% w/w) in the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9527, which was widely used in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 2-Butoxyethanol...

400,000sqm section of the Great Barrier Reef and the use of oil dispersant resulted in oil spreading to reef islands 25 km away. In 2012 and 2013, there...

800 km2) of oil slick. Dispersants were not used in the U.S. area of the spill because of the dispersant's inability to treat weathered oil. Eventually...

and clean up the oil spill. These included MPA patrol craft which were deployed to spray dispersants on the oil spill, as well as oil skimmers operated...

the oil remains floating at sea - the safer it becomes. And, the rougher the weather - the better also." Maritime New Zealand used the oil dispersant Corexit...