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 …

Dispersants as marine oil spill treating agents: a review on mesoscale tests and field trials

F Merlin, Z Zhu, M Yang, B Chen, K Lee… - Environmental Systems …, 2021 - Springer
The increasing oil demand and busy waterways highlight the importance of oil spill
preparedness and responses. Dispersants attract attention as an effective response tool to …

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

National Academies of Sciences, Life Studies… - 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 …

A review on multiphase underwater jets and plumes: Droplets, hydrodynamics, and chemistry

MC Boufadel, S Socolofsky, J Katz, D Yang… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Jets and plumes have been the focus of quantitative investigations since the mid‐1950s.
These investigations intensified following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in which …

Oil Transport Following the Deepwater Horizon Blowout

MC Boufadel, T Özgökmen… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was the largest in US history,
covering more than 1,000 km of shorelines and causing losses that exceeded $50 billion …

The treatment of biodegradation in models of sub-surface oil spills: A review and sensitivity study

SA Socolofsky, J Gros, E North, MC Boufadel… - Marine pollution …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodegradation is important for the fate of oil spilled in marine environments, yet
parameterization of biodegradation varies across oil spill models, which usually apply …

A decade of GoMRI dispersant science

A Quigg, JW Farrington, S Gilbert, SA Murawski… - Oceanography, 2021 - JSTOR
Dispersants are among a number of options available to oil spill responders. The goals of
this technique are to remove oil from surface waters in order to reduce exposure of surface …

[LIBRO][B] Deep Oil Spills

SA Murawski, CH Ainsworth, S Gilbert, DJ Hollander… - 2020 - Springer
Eric Brown, a British aircraft engineer, described structural engineering as “the art of molding
materials we do not really understand into shapes we cannot really analyze, so as to …

Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

CH Ainsworth, EP Chassignet, D French-McCay… - … Modelling & Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research
Initiative (GOMRI) has studied the oil spill from the perspectives of ocean environment …

Far-field modeling of a deep-sea blowout: sensitivity studies of initial conditions, biodegradation, sedimentation, and subsurface dispersant injection on surface slicks …

N Perlin, CB Paris, I Berenshtein, AC Vaz… - Deep Oil Spills: Facts …, 2020 - Springer
Modeling of large-scale oil transport and fate resulting from deep-sea oil spills is highly
complex due to a number of bio-chemo-geophysical interactions, which are often empirically …