Monitoring in Banes product of the spill of the petroleum

Cuba is subjected in a systematic way is subjected to oil contamination in the coastal waters. It is well-known that an appreciable percent of oil transported is decanted in the area of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico by f supertanquer. Many studies have demonstrated that the main sources of contamination for hydrocarbons in this region are the illegal laundry of the ballast and the discharges coming from the tankers. The oil spills cause a severe contamination of the floor and of the bodies of water. Due to these compounds are toxic for the alive beings since are mutagenic and carcinogenic (Luque and other, 1995). The main objective of this work is the determination of origin of the contamination by the study of hydrocarbons present in the waters and marine sediment collected. For the realization of the work were. Used a Liquid Chromatography in silica - alumina column, for the determination of different oil