Scientists are on the trail of new solutions to oil seepage and its aftermath

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As owners go to extraordinary lengths to prevent environmental impacts in their offshore oil and gas operations, science is taking a laboratory-based approach to the matter. Technologies that would have been inconceivable a decade ago provide hope that oil seepages, blowouts and spills can be prevented or better controlled, thereby protecting the fragile Gulf ecosystem.

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