Corexit (often styled COREXIT) is a product line of oil dispersants used during oil spill response operations. It is produced by Nalco Holding Company...

EPA that Corexit use continued after that date and a GAP investigation stated that "[a] majority of GAP witnesses cited indications that Corexit was used...

000 US gallons (2,920 m3) were used subsea at the wellhead. Corexit EC9500A and Corexit EC9527A were the principal dispersants employed. The two formulations...

the case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, unprecedented amounts of Corexit were sprayed directly into the ocean at the leak and on the sea-water's...

with the oil. The toxicology of the oil dispersant Corexit 9500 on F. grandis has been studied. Corexit 9500 is produced and distributed through NALCO and...

operating in over 130 countries.[citation needed] Among its products is Corexit - an oil dispersant widely used in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The...

mixture of Corexit and oil. Susan Shaw, of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Strategic Sciences Working Group, says "BP told the public that Corexit was 'as...

(PAHs), and heavy metals. The spill was also notable for the volume of Corexit oil dispersant used to help disperse the oil. Although approved by the...

primary dispersant used were Corexit 9527 and 9500, which were controversial due to toxicity. In 2012, a study found that Corexit made the oil up to 52 times...

claimed that the use of Corexit to clean up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was known to the EPA to be dangerous; Corexit has been found to have more...

properties, it is a major constituent (30–60% w/w) in the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9527, which was widely used in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon...

indicates that some dispersants are toxic to corals. A 2012 study found that Corexit dispersant had increased the toxicity of oil by up to 52 times. In 2019...

spill. Factors such as petroleum toxicity, oxygen depletion and the use of Corexit are expected to be the main causes of damage. Most of the impact was on...

levels in fish by a factor of up to 100 and may kill fish eggs. Dispersant Corexit 9527 was for example used to disperse an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico...

choice to use the dispersant Corexit to combat the 210 million gallons of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. The use of Corexit was criticized because it's...

According to a report by David Kirby for TakePart, the main component of the Corexit formulation used during cleanup, 2-butoxyethanol, was identified as "one...

Horizon oil spill. The film argues that BP has utilized the oil dispersant Corexit in the Gulf to create the illusion that the Louisiana beaches are safe...

leaking. Pemex contracted Conair Aviation to spray the chemical dispersant Corexit 9527 on the oil. A total of 493 aerial missions were flown, treating 1...

confronted by the EPA regarding the chemical harm that their product, Corexit, would have on the Gulf environment. Nalco refused to release the formula...

Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclastus, die when exposed to the chemical dispersant COREXIT EC9500A used to treat the Deepwater Horizon oilspill. The genome of Marinobacter...

commenced soon after the spill occurred. 400 litres of Corexit 7764 and 4200 litres of Corexit 9527 were supplied by Santos. The absence of an appropriate...

officials to allow multiple exemptions to spray thousands of gallons of Corexit during the BP Horizon oil spill ignoring EPA directives and oversaw the...

economies and the health of humans, animals, and food sources, and with Corexit, where all the oil went, as a follow-up to the pre-spill SoLa, Louisiana...

and it is among the least toxic, according to EPA tests. By comparison, Corexit, the oil dispersant used in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, is rated at...

also." Maritime New Zealand used the oil dispersant Corexit 9500 to help in the cleanup process. Corexit is known to increase the toxicity of oil. The dispersant...

on saboteurs. To clean up the oil spill, Petrotrin has opted to use the Corexit 9500 dispersant that was employed BP in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil...

into the oil slick to investigate the impact of the chemical dispersant Corexit, which was being used to contain the oil spill. Her findings informed the...

the brunt of clean up efforts. BP decided on the oil dissolving chemical Corexit which was shown by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to...

Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2015. "Corexit - Clearing the seas of spilled oil". The Kansas City Times. 6 December...

against the perils of another 'money spill'. Ott criticized BP for using Corexit to disperse the oil, which she alleges is toxic to humans. In August 2010...