Oil Spill in East China Sea

An oil tanker sank in the East China Sea, spilling over 111,300 metric tons of natural gas condensate. The extent of the problem this could cause is unknown since previous oil spills involved crude oil, not condensate. Condensate will not collect on the surface or sink to the ocean floor. Instead, it will evaporate, burn off, or dissolve into the surface water. This makes makes it hard to track where the spill reaches and what areas might be affected by the lingering chemical compounds.
Researchers are currently working to determine how far the dissolved condensate will travel and the effects it will have on marine life.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unique-oil-spill-in-east-china-sea-frustrates-scientists/

Comments

  1. chrheaFebruary 2, 2018 at 1:08 PM

    Holy cannoli. More of a disaster than a crude oil spill.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2018 at 6:21 PM

    This sounds like a huge problem for all organisms around the area. The oil spill is bad enough news, but not knowing what areas will be effected or what the effects will be makes this situation even worse. I wonder how the people in this area are reacting.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 14, 2018 at 6:21 PM

    This sounds like a huge problem for all organisms around the area. The oil spill is bad enough news, but not knowing what areas will be effected or what the effects will be makes this situation even worse. I wonder how the people in this area are reacting.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2018 at 7:37 PM

    When this article was written it stated that Steiner had said that he had "seen no reports" of the Chinese government monitoring the impact that the spill has had on the wildlife.

    Below is an article from The New York Times written this past week.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/world/asia/china-condensate-oil-spill-tanker-cleanup.html

    In the article it states how the response and monitoring of the situation from the Chinese government is still being criticized because of how slow they were, and still are, to react. Japan has also found evidence that the oil spill might have reached its shores, which is funny considering the Chinese models contradicted the European models by indicating that the chemicals were "unlikely to intrude on Japanese shores at all". Something has to be done about this considering how we have no idea what could come of the oil spill.

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