Predicting how the 2017 Amuay refinery spill spread across the Caribbean

Predicting how the 2017 Amuay refinery spill spread across the Caribbean

On 31 October 2017, Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA confirmed that crude oil had escaped from its Amuay refinery, one of the country’s largest refining complexes, perched on the Paraguaná Peninsula that juts north into the Caribbean Sea. Cleanup crews were mobilized along the peninsula’s shoreline, but the sea had already taken a hand in […]