When it comes to oil spills and their impacts on marine environments, water and oil don’t mix. In this episode, we chat with an oil spill response expert and share some weird facts about oil and oil contamination.
When it comes to oil spills and their impacts on marine environments, water and oil don’t mix. In this episode, we chat with an oil spill response expert, Doug Helton, regional operations supervisor for NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration, Emergency Response Division, and discuss some weird facts about oil and oil contamination.
An oiled rock along the Mississippi River shoreline near New Orleans, Louisiana, following an April 2018 fuel oil spill. Oil can come in different forms, including tarballs, pancakes, and mousse.This is the NOAA Ocean Podcast. I’m Marissa Anderson. Today we're going to talk about oil, but we're not going to focus on what it is, or how it's used, or how it's related to climate change ... or any of the pros and cons of how we use this ancient fossil fuel.
Oil spills can wreak havoc on ecosystems, with long-lasting damage to coastal plants and animals. And cleaning up these spills is harder and way more complicated than you think because once oil is spilled, it does some pretty weird stuff. And at NOAA, we have some of the world's top oil spill experts who provide scientific support to help deal with these spills in U.S. coastal waterways.
Doug Helton, regional operations supervisor for NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration, Emergency Response Division. So things like gasoline and diesel. Some ships use a very specialized, heavy fuel oil that's more like a roofing tar almost. So there's a whole range of refined oils, and then there's thousands of different kinds of crude oils. And some crude oils are very, very light, almost like a gasoline, and some are very heavy and come out of the ground almost like a tar — or in some cases, even almost like a solid material. So those can be very challenging to refine.
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