ABSTRACT
PAUL D. BOEHM*, JOHN BROWN and ADOLFO G. REQUEJOI Battelle Ocean Sciences, 397 Washington Street, Duxbury, Massachusetts,
02332, USA
ABSTRACT
A series of laboratory partitioning experiments was conducted to determine the fate and partitioning of individual and total hydrocarbon components in diesel oil-drilling mud mixtures. A generic mud ( No. 8) was mixed in several concentrations with a high sulfur (5%) diesel oil, and this mixture was in turn introduced to seawater in several concentrations. After agitation, settleable solids, aqueous (`dissolved'), and suspended particulate phases were isolated and detailed analysis were conducted by high resolution gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
