Study of Oil Pollution Levels in Sediment of the Umm- Qasr and khor Al- Zubair ports.

Abstract

The study area in this paper which represented by Umm-Qasr and Khor Al- Zubair ports
are located in Southern Iraq could be effected by Various kinds of pollutants resulting from
different sources. These may have severe impact on the water quality of these ports and
eventually upon living aquatic organisms. Therefore, it is important to determine the total
concentration of petroleum hydrocarbons TPHs. Oil concentration in the sediment collected,
from July 2010 to April 2011at eight stations (3 sites within Umm Qasr Port and 5 sites
within Khor Al- Zubair ports). Spectroflourometeric method has been adopted to measure the
TPHs. The measured concentrations of oil in this study ranged between10.12 - 20.5μg/gm.
It was suggested that 10μg/l indicate concentration f marine life with oil