Hydrocarbons soil pollution in Romania: issue and solutions

In Romania, according to the National Strategy and National Action Plan for Contaminated Sites Management in Romania, there are more than 215 potentially contaminated sites. According to the same report on the management of contaminated sites in 2013, starting more than 150 years ago, the oil industry in Romania is considered extremely important for economic development. Contaminated sites related to petroleum industry are ranging from small (extraction fields) to large and complex (refinery or storage facilities large - distribution of petroleum products). This paper will present the most used remediation methods at nationally level for petroleum contaminated sites. Moreover they will be presented and feasible alternatives that could be applied in Romania. The three methods presented here can be classified as a biological method (bioremediation), a thermal method (thermal desorbtion) and a physico-chemical method (electrochemical method). If the first two methods are already used at real scale at national level, the third method was studied during the development of an european project.