Improved and standardized methodology for oil spill fingerprinting

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 263-278

  Daling, Per S ^a   Faksness, Liv Guri ^a   Hansen, Asger B ^b   Stout, Scott A ^c  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b NERI   (Denmark)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Diagnostic ratios; Nordtest; Oil spill identification; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036756171     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2002.0099     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. ASTM D 3328-00: Standard Test Methods for Comparison of Waterborne Petroleum Oils by Gas Chromatography (Published in September 2000).
2. Daling, P.S. and Faksness, L.-G. 2002. Laboratory and reporting instructions for the CEN/BT/TF 120 oil spill identification - Round Robin test - May, 2001. SINTEF Report STF66 A02027.
3. Douglas, G.S., Bence, A.E., Prince, R.C., McMillen, S.J. and Butler, E.L. 1996. Environmental stability of selected petroleum hydrocarbon source and weathering ratios. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30, 2332-2339.
4. Faksness, L.-G., Hansen, A.B., Stout, S., Viitala, N., Gjøs, N., Johansson, J. and Daling, P.S. 2001. Oil spill identification. Nordtest Round Robin testing series A (Field samples). Summary report. SINTEF Report STF66 A01003.
5. Faksness, L.-G., Weiss, H. and Daling, P.S. 2002a. Revision of the Nordtest methodology for oil spill identification - Technical report. SINTEF Report STF66 A01028.
6. Faksness, L.-G., Daling, P.S. and Hansen, A.B. 2002b. CEN/BT/TF 120 oil spill identification. Summary report: Round Robin test series B. SINTEF report STF66 A02038.
7. Faksness, L.-G., Gjøs, N. and Oreld, F. 2002c. Nordtest. Improvement of laboratory techniques: Column clean up. SINTEF Report STF66 A02039.
8. Faksness, L.-G., Daling, P.S. and Hansen, A.B. 2002d. Round Robin study - Oil spill identification. Environ. Forens., this issue (doi: 10.1006, enfo. 2002. 0106).
9. Harris, D.C. 1995. Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 4th Edition. New York, USA, W. H. Freemantle and Company.
10. McDonagh, M., Hokstad, J.N. and Nordvik, A.B. 1995. Standard procedure for viscosity measurement of water-in-oil emulsions. Marine Spill Response Corporation, Washington D.C., MSRC Technical Report Series 95-030, 36 p.
11. Nordtest Method NT CHEM 001 Oil Spill Identification (Edition 2, Approved 1991).
12. Peters, K.E. and Moldowan, J.M. 1993. The Biomarker Guide. Interpreting Molecular Fossils in Petroleum and Ancient Sediments, 363 p. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-086752-7.
13. Prince, R.C., Elmendorf, D.L., Lute, J.R., Hsu, C.S., Halth, C.E., Senius, J.D., Dechert, G.J., Douglas, G.S. and Butler, E. 1994. 17α(H), 21β(H)-Hopane as a conserved internal marker for estimating the biodegradation of crude oil. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28(1).
14. Radke, M. 1988. Organic chemistry of aromatic hydrocarbons. In: Advances in Petroleum Geochemistry 1987, pp. 141-207. London, Academic Press.
15. Stout, S., Naples, W.P., Uhler, A.D., McCarthy, K.J., Roberts, L.G. and Uhler, R.M. 2000. Use of quantitative biomarker analysis in the differentiation and characterization of spilled oil. Paper prepared for the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and the Environment, Stavanger, Norway, 26-28 June.
16. Stout, S.A., Uhler, A.D., McCarthy, K.J. and Emsbo-Mattingly, S. 2001. A methodology for correlating spilled oil to its source. Contam. Soil Sediment Water, August.
17. Stout, S.A., Uhler, A.D., McCarthy, K.J. and Emsbo-Mattingly, S. 2002. Chemical fingerprinting of hydrocarbons. In: Introduction to Environmental Forensics, pp. 137-260. (Murphy and Morrison, R.D., Eds). San Diego, CA, USA, Academic Press.
18. Strøm-Kristiansen, T., Lewis, A., Daling, P.S., Hokstad, J.N. and Singsaas, I. 1997. Weathering and dispersion of naphthenic, asphaltenic, and waxy crude oils. Proc. 1997 Int. Oil Spill Conf., pp. 631-636.
19. Wang, Z., Fingas, M. and Page, D.S. 1999. Oil spill identification. J. Chrom. A 843, 369-411.
20. Wang, Z. and Fingas, M. 1995. Use of methyldibenzothiophenes as markers for differentiation and source identification of crude and weathered oils. Environ. Sci. Technol. 29(11), 2842-2849.
21. Weiss, H.M., Wilhelms, A., Mills, N., Scotchmer, J., Hall, P.B., Lind, K. and Brekke, T. 2000. NIGOGA - The Norwegian Industry Guide to Organic Geochemical Analyses [Online]. Edition 4.0 Published by Norsk Hydro, Statoil, Geolab Nor, SINTEF Petroleum Research and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. 102 pp. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.npd.no/engelsk/nigoga/nigoga.pdf