Oil Spill Simulation and Analysis of Its Behavior Under the Effect of Weathering and Chemical Dispersant: a Case Study of the Bacia de Campos—Brazil

Torres, Daniel Henriques Alves; da Costa Dias, Fabricio; Bahiana, Bruna Russo; Haddad, Assed Naked; Chinelli, Christine Kowal; Soares, Carlos Alberto Pereira

Oil Spill Simulation and Analysis of Its Behavior Under the Effect of Weathering and Chemical Dispersant: a Case Study of the Bacia de Campos—Brazil

2020

Offshore oil spills are a critical form of marine pollution, requiring researchers to mitigate their impacts. In this sense, this paper contributes to a better understanding of oil behavior after spillage and the improvement of contingency measures. Using Bacia de Campos as the study area, which accounts for approximately 32% of daily oil and gas production in Brazil, information regarding the properties of light, medium, and heavy oils, seawater, wind and wave weather conditions, and oil spill characteristics was used to perform simulations to identify the percentage of oil remaining after the offshore spill and the effectiveness of the chemical dispersant in dispersing this oil. The results show that after the weathering simulation, on average, 55% of the spilled oil remains at sea in dispersed and remaining form and that the use of chemical dispersant under the conditions defined in this study did not result in significant oil removal.

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