It's very hard to understand what this dispersed oil might be doing in those places.

"And the dispersed oil is in the process of degrading.

Everywhere there was dispersed oil and heavily oiled, the production is down.

A particular problem results from the flaring of solution gas at widely dispersed oil well sites.

Effects of short-term exposure to dispersed oil in Arctic invertebrates.

But the concern is that dispersed oil may do more harm to marine life than oil left alone.

That's good news, because the dispersed oil would be easier for bacteria to break down and consume than the larger clumps.

Dispersed oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

Many investigations were launched after the Ixtoc spill to explore the effects of dispersed oil, he added.

All of the sampling to date shows that except near the leaking well, the subsurface dispersed oil is in parts per million levels or less.

Produced water will be treated to a target dispersed oil concentration of 25 mg/L (30-day weighted average).

This includes 1.2 million barrels of dispersed oil that is, as the report notes, "in the process of being degraded."

He said fishermen disliked the dispersant because dispersed oil is lethal to marine life near the surface.

There is, however, a need to understand the factors controlling their effectiveness and the long-term impact of chemically dispersed oil on marine animals.

Light liquid paraffin 63.4%, plus added agents producing an emulsion of dispersed oil in water.

About hypotheses of dispersed oil migration in the form of solution in water.

According to the manufacturer's own safety sheet, the dispersed oil actually becomes more toxic once it's been eaten, a process known as 'bioaccumulation'.

They then exposed the fish to untreated oil, chemically dispersed oil or dispersant alone for 48 hours.

Much of this dispersed oil mixed with natural gas from the well and remained deep in the gulf as a thin plume that drifted for months.

The red gunk resembles dispersed oil, according to photographer and local resident Shirley Tillman.

They took particular issue with the NIC's dismissal of dispersed oil hidden below the surface.

Dispersed oil is still oil.

This concern must be balanced against the hypothesis that dispersed oil at sea is rapidly biodegraded and, hence, effectively removed from the environment.

Dispersed oil droplets infiltrate into deeper water and can lethally contaminate coral.

The dispersed oil cloud will travel about 54 km and have a maximum width of about 4 km.