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- Out Of Sight Out Of Mind, BP Hides Oil By Using Dispersant Sun, 1 Aug 10, 12:33pmJust because you can’t see the oil, doesn’t mean that it just vanished. Dumping a couple million gallons of dispersant will make the oil break up into little bits, but that just means it will spread it out more....
- Chemical Dispersants and Crude Oil - Efficacy and Toxicity Thu, 15 Jul 10, 12:30amThis is a guest post by Dr. Stephen R. Humphrey, known on The Oil Drum as NatResDr. Steve Humphrey has been on the faculty of the University of Florida since 1971. Currently he is Director of The School of Natural Resources...
- Use Of Toxic Dispersant Will Have Long Term Affects Tue, 6 Jul 10, 1:04amI never understood why BP was using so much dispersant, it seems like they are only interested in keeping the visual impact of the spill out of the public eye...
- The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - the Dispersant Meeting Report - and Open Thread 2 Sat, 12 Jun 10, 12:49pmBecause of the large number of comments, this is a new thread.
- The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - the Dispersant Meeting Report - and Open Thread Sat, 12 Jun 10, 12:35amConcerns about the use of dispersant by the Rapid Response Teams (RRT) working on the Deepwater Horizon spill led to the ”Deepwater Horizon Dispersant Use Meeting” that was held on May 26 -27...
- The API Teleconference on the Oil Spill plus Some More Recent News Items Tue, 11 May 10, 12:23amThis post is really a combination of two things: (1) A report on an American Petroleum Institute (API) teleconference from a few days ago relating to the oil spill by Dave Summers (Heading Out) and (2) Some more recent news...