Talk:Oil spill

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The 'largest spills' table/section seems to be somewhat western-centric--my guess would be that the data is limited to single-events (not multiple smaller events in a single area), and is focused on events that were 'noticed' by the western world for whatever reason (that includes Iraq war). For example, I keep hearing that the Niger Delta is horribly hit and nobody hears about it. I think those are multiple events over extended time--no less devastating, but each event is smaller, or maybe just nobody measured the spill?

"According to Nigerian federal government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillages sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller ones still waiting to be cleared up. More than 1,000 spill cases have been filed against Shell alone." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell

Maybe the poster of the data could add some text for context as to the source, types of data, limitations, etc?

Thanks. 69.86.235.245 (talk) 01:48, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the Guardian link. a key quote from that article has two different sources (WWF UK and Amnesty) give two very similar estimates of between 1.22 and 1.5 million tons (9 to 11 million barrels) of oil:

One report, compiled by WWF UK, the World Conservation Union and representatives from the Nigerian federal government and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, calculated in 2006 that up to 1.5m tons of oil – 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Alaska – has been spilled in the delta over the past half century. Last year Amnesty calculated that the equivalent of at least 9m barrels of oil was spilled and accused the oil companies of a human rights outrage.

This presumably includes spills that would not make it into the list of "largest spills" however.See suggestion (B) below, under "Data for Totals" Harel (talk) 22:41, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I have added some data about spills in the Niger Delta in the prose just above the table of largest spills. Larataguera (talk) 03:31, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

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Remove "Solby's academically accelerated class took off on a mass journey to discover the advanced reasoning behind such science of oil and water. Below is the research they concluded." (the second paragraph) as it seems unnecessary. 138.87.133.14 (talk) 15:34, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

 Done  Spintendo  15:59, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

I work with developing systems for sensitivity mapping (Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) mapping)" and find that the section ESI mapping might deserve its own page so that the methods in question can be further elaborated. The ESI part of this article could then be made into a smaller one pointing to a more elaborate page. Comments? Ragnvald (talk) 10:45, 19 February 2023 (UTC)