Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well

Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well

Evidence of fresh oil from the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 (MC-252) well was found in the northern Gulf of Mexico up to 1 year and 10 months after it was capped on 15 July 2010. Offshore and coastal samples collected after capping displayed ratios of biomarkers matching those of MC-2...

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Main Authors: Kolian, Steve R., Porter, Scott A., Sammarco, Paul W., Birkholz, Detlef, Cake, Edwin W., Subra, Wilma A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515244/
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spelling pubmed-45152442015-07-27 Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well Kolian, Steve R. Porter, Scott A. Sammarco, Paul W. Birkholz, Detlef Cake, Edwin W. Subra, Wilma A. Research Article Evidence of fresh oil from the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 (MC-252) well was found in the northern Gulf of Mexico up to 1 year and 10 months after it was capped on 15 July 2010. Offshore and coastal samples collected after capping displayed ratios of biomarkers matching those of MC-252 crude oil. Pre- and post-capping samples were compared. Little weathering had occurred, based on the abundance of low-molecular-weight (LMW) n-alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the post-capping samples. The occurrence of fresh oil in offshore waters and coastal areas suggest that the MC-252 well continued to leak hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico at least until 22 May 2012, the end of this study period. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015-04-16 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4515244/ /pubmed/25874429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4421-y Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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author Kolian, Steve R.
Porter, Scott A.
Sammarco, Paul W.
Birkholz, Detlef
Cake, Edwin W.
Subra, Wilma A.
spellingShingle Kolian, Steve R.
Porter, Scott A.
Sammarco, Paul W.
Birkholz, Detlef
Cake, Edwin W.
Subra, Wilma A.
Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well
author_facet Kolian, Steve R.
Porter, Scott A.
Sammarco, Paul W.
Birkholz, Detlef
Cake, Edwin W.
Subra, Wilma A.
author_sort Kolian, Steve R.
title Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well
title_short Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well
title_full Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well
title_fullStr Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well
title_full_unstemmed Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon (MC-252) well
title_sort oil in the gulf of mexico after the capping of the bp/deepwater horizon mississippi canyon (mc-252) well
description Evidence of fresh oil from the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 (MC-252) well was found in the northern Gulf of Mexico up to 1 year and 10 months after it was capped on 15 July 2010. Offshore and coastal samples collected after capping displayed ratios of biomarkers matching those of MC-252 crude oil. Pre- and post-capping samples were compared. Little weathering had occurred, based on the abundance of low-molecular-weight (LMW) n-alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the post-capping samples. The occurrence of fresh oil in offshore waters and coastal areas suggest that the MC-252 well continued to leak hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico at least until 22 May 2012, the end of this study period.
publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515244/
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