Sentences with phrase «dissipate oil slicks»

Proponents claim the dispersants did help dissipate oil slicks on the sea surface, causing less oil to taint shoreline beaches and marshes.

Aerial photographs and anecdotal accounts suggested that the deep - sea dispersant injection may have helped dissipate the oil slicks at the surface and improve air quality around responder boats working near the disaster site.

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Dispersants have been applied to oil slicks on the ocean surface for half a century to break petroleum into smaller droplets that dissipate into waters of the open ocean so that less oil reaches ecologically sensitive coastlines.