Marine Oil Spills: Implications on Response Plan

摘要

Understanding oil spill detection, modelling is critical in formulating oil spill response to minimize the catastrophic environmental impact due to oil spill. This paper provides the key research results for oil spill response from various published literatures over few decades which are based on case studies, laboratory tests, fi eld visits and modelling work. This paper presents an overview and summary of literature reviews on off shore oil spills, fate of spilled oil, response plans and cleanup methods. A brief discussion on the technological advancements in identifying oil spills and oil spill modelling is presented. Discussions on the response methods include recent advances in spill response plans and cleanup methods. The synthesis of published literatures from various previous work on understanding and mitigation strategies of oil spill disaster would immensely contribute scientifi c knowledge to deal with the future oil spill.