Environmental and Health Impacts of Nanoparticles Application in Our Oil Industry

Abstract This study seeks to bring to the forefront among many other publications, the pernicious and inconspicuous hazards that the unguarded application of nanoparticles or nanotechnology may pose to the environment, as well as, the health of both humans and animals. The environmental and health implications of this new transcending technology differs not in many field where this technology is applied, but this work narrows down most of these identified risks in our oil and gas fields as an area of major concentration for this work. As part of the major work of resolving the emulsion problems in the oil and gas field using engineered nanoparticles, this paper analyses the risk and the reliable safety measures that must be followed from production to the application of the nanoparticles in the oil field as well as the disposal of the spent nanoparticles. This work is not only to increase the awareness of the health and environmental risks associated with the production and application of nanoparticles, but more also we showed in this work, the great benefits and the future impact of this technology as we produce and apply the nanoparticle under the proposed safe measures that we have described in this paper.