Dispersant May Have Actually Hindered Oil-Degrading Microbes During BP Spill Clean-Up
A dispersant used to speed up up the biodegradation of stark oil color following theBP crude spillin the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 may have actually had the diametric effect , concord to a newstudy . Around 7 million liters ( 1.8 million congius ) of the chemical dispersants Corexit 9500 and 9527 were applied to the glossy in an attempt to break up the 750 million l ( 198 million gallons ) of blunt oil that spewed into the sea when the Deepwater Horizon rock oil rig sink , in the Leslie Townes Hope of stimulate biodegradation ....