Soil pollution from oil fields' exploitation in Albania - incidence of the marinza oil well explosion

The Oil Industry in Albania, with an almost centennial exploitation, beyond its economical benefits, social and new urban centers development, has continued to generate negative environmental impact on soil, water and air of the regions where this industry operates. Patos-Marinza is one of the biggest continental oil fields in Europe. This oil filed currently carries around 60% of geological oil reserves in the country or over 251,907 million tons of crude oil. Its intensive exploitation have been documented for many decades since now. Recently, due its maximal exploitation beyond the technological limitations in early 2015 a incidence in the Marinza oil field, where oil explosions were present for a long period which brought to the interruption of the oil extraction in the area. A correlation among the environment situation and explosion oil well incidence is evidenced in the qualitative indicators over agricultural lands, contaminated. (author)