These are just some of the many questions that remain about the Mauritius oil spill since the large Japanese vessel struck an important coral reef in Southeast Mauritius and started spilling oil on August 6. Presumably, the oil is still in Port Louis and such an oil fingerprinting exercise can now take place. Oil testing takes a matter of hoursExtraction of the oil for fingerprinting (left) and what the results of the oil fingerprinting ... [+] (right) should look like. Was it just coincidence that eight major international organizations with deep oil spill response experience all conveniently ‘forgot’ to do oil fingerprinting in the early days of a major oil spill? All that is needed is a thimble full of oil to conduct the oil fingerprinting.

Source: Forbes September 28, 2020 08:37 UTC