Risk of crude oil and refined products pollution coming from spills and leakages at transportation, transfers and accumulation of oil effluent at different oil field operations will increase in future as oil consumption increases. According to the United States National Research Council reports up to ten million oil tons fall into rivers, lakes and global ocean annually. One liter of oil when poured into water denudes forty liters of it of oxygen and can work the ruin more than one million of larval or hatchling fish and other sea organisms. The impact of oil spills on water ecosystem cannot be overemphasized. Oil is one of the most dangerous pollutants for the environment because of its capacity to thin the lipid layers of the cells membrane and the huge scale of usage.
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