Oil spill disaster monitoring along Nigerian coastline
Egberongbe, Fatai O.A. ... [et al.]
In 1956, Royal Dutch Shell discovered crude oil at Oloibiri, a village in the Niger Delta, and commercial production began in 1958. Today, there are 606 oil fields in the Niger Delta, of which 360 are on-shore and 246 offshore. Nigeria is now the largest oil producer in Africa and the eleventh largest in the world, averaging 2.5 million barrels per day (bbl/d) in 2004. Nigeria's proven oil reserved is 35.2 billion barrels. Since the discovery of oil in Nigeria in the 1956, the country has been suffering the negative environmental consequences of oil development. The transport and fate of spilled oil in water bodies are governed by physical, chemical, and biological processes that depend on the oil properties, hydrodynamics, meteorological and environmental conditions. These processes include advection, turbulent diffusion, surface spreading, evaporation, dissolution, emulsification, hydrolysis, photo-oxidation, biodegradation and particulation. Oil spill models have the capability of predicting the threedimensional evolution of oil, including entrainment, subsurface transport, sedimentation, and refloating of spilled oil.
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