Recurrent oil sheens at the Deepwater Horizon disaster site fingerprinted with synthetic hydrocarbon drilling fluids

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8211-8219

  Aeppli, Christoph ^a   Reddy, Christopher M ^a   Nelson, Robert K ^a   Kellermann, Matthias Y ^b   Valentine, David L ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEEPWATER HORIZONS; EVAPORATIVE LOSS; MACONDO WELLS; NATURAL SEEPS; OIL HYDROCARBONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SYNTHETIC HYDROCARBONS;

ABANDONED WELLS; COFFERDAMS; DEEPWATER DRILLING; DISASTERS; DRILLING FLUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL TANKS; WELL DRILLING;

OIL WELL DRILLING;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON;

ALKANE; DRILLING FLUID; EVAPORATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LEAKAGE; OIL SPILL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SAMPLING; SEAFLOOR;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; OIL SPILL; SAMPLING;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBONS; OILS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84881405059     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4024139     Document Type: Article

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