How Oil Industry Can Become A Marine Issue?
By
Dedy Mustari
The demand of Energy is immensely growing significantly, judging how Energy consumption still remains the biggest worldwide needs for human being to start their daily routines or activities. One of the biggest Energy consumption is oil, produced through numerous processes, treatments and complicated industries to create one product. This industry is continuously contributing massive profitability for a country and being responsible for a country to be developed. However, the bigger or more complicated the process is, the bigger waste and sewage will be produced. Undeniably, this issue inflicts some cases in which the waste or untreated material discarded by the industry ends up entering and polluting ocean and marine ecosystem either from land-based industry or ocean-based industry.
Ordinarily, there are several factors why those materials can end up into the oceans. Firstly, the inadequate treatment in terms of managing the waste or sewage or re-using the material into something valuable. In order for dealing with this issue, Industry is required to build another unit process merely for handling the waste which is still out of concern for industry to build the complete or proper technology. Consequently, the waste is continuously polluting environment especially the marine life and ecosystem and contaminating marine animals.
Besides, every oil industry has a very complicated procedure to make crude oil into a complete product which requires a ton of machines and processes, for instance, Exploration and Drilling process which contributes pollution upon oceans due to drilling process occasionally has the biggest opportunity to spill the oil into ocean. Moreover, the severity of oil can pollute the ocean also depends on the type of oil involved, triggering several maintenances to tackle the contaminated water like centrifugation, bioremediation, and co-processing method and other industrial waste treatments.
As a result, the spilled oil will spread around the surface of the ocean, coating the animals' bodies, feather, and other parts or even poisoning the marine habitat around the incident. The animals covered by oil will ingest or consume that poisonous and toxic oil while attempting to clean themselves and many of them will either die at the end or end up continuing poisoning the food chain. As reported, the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster was estimated to have killed more than 25.000 dolphins and approximately 80.000 sea birds along with thousands of turtles.
To sum up, the pollution triggered by oil industries need both proper solution and support owing to the lack of concern and policy regarding oil spills will affect human and bring severe consequences both economically and environmentally, and even our foreseeable future.
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