LONDON, Nov 3:- With oil becoming scarcer and more expensive, the economics of the industry may finally tip in favor of one of the most neglected areas of its business – the technology for cleaning up oil spills. Despite efforts by scientists to find new and more effective ways to deal with spilt oil, there has been little fundamental change in the technology in the two decades since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that spilled 750,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska. (agencies)
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