Oil spill accidents represent an inherent occupational, environmental, economic, and community health disaster associated with the transformation of petroleum resources into products that help meet our world’s energy need. Dispersants are applied to break the oil spill into sufficiently small droplets and mitigate oil spill impacts by reducing the possibility of shoreline impact, lessening the impact on marine life and significantly increasing the oil-water interfacial area available for remediation processes. Existing dispersants are liquid solutions of surfactant in hydrocarbon solvents. There are several concerns with the existing dispersant systems including the large volume of hydrocarbon solvents introduced into the ecosystem. / Olasehinde Gbenro Owoseni