CONCAWE: SCIENTIFIC SEMINAR ON REMEDIATION OF OIL SPILLS

From: Europe Environment | Date: June 19, 1992 | Copyright information

Summary:

Oil spill clean-up methods and successes, damage assessment methods, contingency planning, oil spill control equipment and bio-remediation of hydrocarbons were just a few of the topics discussed at a scientific seminar on the remediation of oil spills, held in Hamburg, Germany, from May 18-21. Organised by Concawe, the oil companies' European organisation for environmental and health protection, and DGMK, the German Society for Petroleum and Coal Science and Technol...

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