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Groundwater is the water found in underground aquifers. A significant portion of the drinking water supply for the United States comes from underground sources. The oil and natural gas industry is keenly aware of the vulnerability of this resource, and works to ensure that it is not endangered.

API supports industry’s pollution prevention efforts by conducting research on the behavior and fate of petroleum in soil and groundwater, and the best ways to clean up underground petroleum releases. Much of API’s research effort focuses on the breakdown of petroleum by naturally-occurring microscopic organisms and other processes, and ways to enhance these processes.
 

Oxygenates
Find technical information on the natural attenuation, characterization, and fate and transport of fuel oxygenates (including MTBE and ethanol) in soil, groundwater and surface water. More...

Vapor Intrusion
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LNAPL
API's Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (LNAPL) Resource Center contains manuals, software and other technical material to help you address cleanup of free-phase petroleum hydrocarbons in the shallow subsurface. More...

  

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Access API research results and practical tools for risk-based, cost-effective decision making. More...

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