RT Report
T1 Oil Pollution and its Control in the East Asian Seas Region: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 96
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 oil pollution
K1 marine pollution
K1 living marine resource
K1 coastal area
K1 petroleum industry
K1 Indonesia
K1 Malaysia
K1 Philippines
K1 Singapore
K1 Thailand
K1 marine environment
K1 oil spill
K1 East Asia
YR 1988
FD 1988
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31523
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/31523
NO The control of pollution by oil in the marine environment is based on the knowledge of the pathways and fate of this substance upon entering the sea. The fate and pathways of oil are largely governed by the physical processes ranging from molecular motion to ocean-wide currents, operating on time scales from seconds to millennia. Depending on the particular forces acting together at a given time, spilled oil will undergo any of a var1ety of transformations. Physical oceanographic processes are to a larger extent forced by climatic events, so that an analysis of factors determining the extent and degree of oil pollution should start with meteorologicalphenomena.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026