Oil Spills

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Oil Spills
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Petroleum Oil

• Petroleum oil is a dark colored, flammable liquid
  found throughout the world in underground pockets
  in the earths outer layer of rocks.
• Refined petroleum oil has many uses including
  gasoline for cars fuel for ships and airplanes
  heating fuel for homes, schools, and businesses
  the manufacture of plastic products and much
  more.
• Oil producers ship millions of barrels of
  petroleum oil around the world each day.
• Oil tankers are huge ships that can carry more
  than 200,000 tons of oil.

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Damaging Effects of Oil Spills

• Oil on the waters surface can catch on fire and
  pollute the air.
• Oil can sink to the ocean floor and destroy the
  habitats of sea animals.
• Oil can react with oxygen in the air to form
  acids that are carried by wind and eventually
  fall back to the ground as acid rain.
• Oil washes up on beaches and marshes resulting in
  life threatening habitats for wildlife species.
• Sea turtles, birds, whales, fish, otters and
  other animals can become oil-soaked and die.
• Dear, bears, wolves, dogs, and cats can die from
  eating oil-soaked beach plants and animal
  carcasses.

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OFFSHORE DRILLING
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OFFSHORE DRILLING
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Americas Worst Oil Spill
March 24, 1989 The Exxon Valdez oil tanker
scraped along a rocky ocean reef in Alaska
cutting open the hull of the ship. Thousands of
tons of oil spilled into the ocean - enough to
fill a football stadium.
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• The largest oil spill

• The largest oil spill1991 - Gulf War
• 9,000,000 barrels (378,000,000 gallons)
• 1979 - Bay of Campeche, Ciudad del Carmen,
  Mexico
• 140,000,000 gallons

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THE CASE OF GHANA- TEMA PORT
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INDUSTRIAL SPILLS
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Cleaning Oil Spill_at_ Tema Port
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Laid-Up Fishing Vessels-GHANA
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Sinking Vessels-TEMA PORT-GHANA
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Emergency Response-DRILL (TEMA-GHANA)
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OIL FISH..
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OIL FISH
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OIL FISH
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OIL FISH

• Sekondi Ghana _at_ sunset

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Drilling rig, Port of Takoradi, Ghana
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Abuesi, Western Region, Ghana
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Oil spillage pollutes Ghanas Axim coastline
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A ruptured pipeline burns in a Lagos suburb after
an explosion in 2008 which killed at least 100
people
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