Oil Spill Disaster: Eilat-Ashkelon Crude Oil Pipeline Rupture

Oil Spill One of the Worst Pollution Disasters in Israel's History, Officials Say
(Zafrir RENAT, Shirley SEIDLER, and News Agencies, Haaretz; December 4, 2014)
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.629958

N. B.:  Embedded Video footage from Israel Environmental Protection Office

The Aftermath...  


Negev Arava Oil Spill



Israel:  Oil Secrets to Spill
(John REED and David SHEPPARD, Financial Times; January 26, 2016)
https://www.ft.com/content/6260b762-c067-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf

Cleaning up oil in Arava
(Rebecca KUROPATWA, Jewish Independent; 13th February 2015)
http://www.jewishindependent.ca/cleaning-up-oil-in-arava/

Hebrew University Scientists hope to provide solution for Arava oil spill cleanup
(Sharon UDASIN, The Jerusalem Post; January 1, 2015)
http://www.cfhu.org/news/jerusalem-post-article-hebrew-university-scientists-hope-to-provide-solution-for-oil-spill


Selected Studies


Oil spill effects on soil hydrophobicity and related properties in a hyper-arid region
(GORDON et al., 2018)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/I_Stavi/publication/320739676_Oil_spill_effects_on_soil_hydrophobicity_and_related_properties_in_a_hyper-arid_region/links/5a534d77aca2725638c7f48a/Oil-spill-effects-on-soil-hydrophobicity-and-related-properties-in-a-hyper-arid-region.pdf

 The Effect of Petroleum Hydrocarbons on Seed Germination, Development and Survival of Wild and Cultivated Plants in Extreme Desert Soil
(GOLAN et al., 2016)
http://ijaer.in/uploads/ijaer_02__124.pdf




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