Treatment of Oil Spills and Heavy Metals in Environment

Abstract

Treating oil spills and heavy metals is the problem of the old decades and continued to find technical
solutions to address the problems of pollution with heavy metals and oil spills in sea waters as a
result of transporting oil in ships. In general, the health of all marine and terrestrial organisms as
well. This term usually refers to offshore oil spills, where oil is poured into the ocean or coastal
waters, but may occur on land. Spilled oil may be from a variety of materials, including crude oil
from tankers, wells and offshore platforms, and refined petroleum products (Such as gasoline and
diesel fuel), or ship fuel tanks, including waste oil, these spills can take months or even years to clean
up. Oil is also released into the environment due to natural geological seeps to the seabed, but most
of these pollutions are man-made in its activity on land, but public opinion and laws focused heavily
on oil tankers sailing. The biggest incident of oil spill into the sea is what happened in the second half
of January 1991 when the Iraqi army, during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, poured Kuwaiti oil into
the waters of the Arabian Gulf at a daily rate of 6000 barrels. Which formed an oil slick that covered
most of the coasts of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
in April 2010 in what is known as the Deepwater Horizon accident, which led to the leakage of more
than 4,500 barrels.