Despite the fact that oil chemistry and oils spills have been studied for many years, there are still emerging techniques and unknown processes to be explored. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in a revival of oil spill research across a wide range of fields. These studies provided many new insights, but unanswered questions remain. Over 1,000 journal articles related to the Deepwater Horizon spill are indexed by the Chemical Abstract Service. Numerous ecological, human health, and organismal studies were published. Analytical tools applied to the spill include mass spectrometry, chromatography, and optical spectroscopy. Owing to the large scale of studies, this review focuses on three emerging areas that have been explored but remain underutilized in oil spill characterization: excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy, black carbon analysis, and trace metal analysis using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

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深水地平线漏油后石油和石油衍生溶解有机物的新兴化学方法

尽管石油化学和石油泄漏已经研究了很多年，但仍然有新兴技术和未知过程有待探索。 2010 年墨西哥湾深水地平线漏油事件导致各个领域的漏油研究复兴。这些研究提供了许多新的见解，但仍然存在未解答的问题。超过 1,000 篇与深水地平线泄漏事件相关的期刊文章已被化学文摘社索引。发表了大量生态、人类健康和有机体研究。用于泄漏事故的分析工具包括质谱法、色谱法和光谱法。由于研究规模较大，本综述重点关注在溢油表征中已探索但仍未充分利用的三个新兴领域：激发发射矩阵光谱、黑碳分析和使用电感耦合等离子体质谱法的痕量金属分析。