Escassez de dados oculta gravidade dos acidentes com petróleo nas Américas

The report highlights a systemic lack of transparent and consistent data on oil accidents across the 35 nations of the Americas. While Brazil, Canada, and the United States provide the most regular open data, significant gaps remain regarding the severity of impacts, fatalities, and responsible parties. The document emphasizes that this data scarcity obscures the true scale of environmental and social risks, particularly in sensitive regions like the Amazon, where aging infrastructure and operational failures continue to cause significant spills.

• Out of 35 countries in the Americas, only Brazil, Canada, and the United States maintain open databases that are updated regularly regarding oil accidents.
• Public databases across the region frequently omit critical metrics such as the extent of the accident, the specific type of ecological or property damage, or the loss of human life.
• Brazil possesses the most comprehensive dataset in the Americas, recording an average of 5.5 incidents per day between 2012 and 2023, though the data contains inconsistencies such as missing incident dates in over 10% of cases and a lack of measurement units for spilled volumes.
• In Mexico, official records significantly underreport oil spills; a recent investigation in the Gulf of Mexico found that approximately 60% of spills detected via satellite between January 2018 and July 2024 were not reported by the responsible companies.
• The Amazon region is highly vulnerable to oil infrastructure risks; specifically, the Peruvian Amazon recorded approximately 474 oil spills between 2000 and 2019, and Ecuador's SOTE pipeline had 65 incidents between 1972 and 2019, spilling about 730,000 barrels.
• A 2023 investigation identified over 8,000 contaminated or potentially contaminated sites across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, including abandoned wells and crude oil residue in soil.

APA

Ribeiro, R. (2025). Escassez de dados oculta gravidade dos acidentes com petróleo nas Américas. Zero Carbon Analytics. https://zerocarbon-analytics.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-11_ZCA_Escassez-de-dados-oculta-gravidade-dos-acidentes-com-petroleo-nas-Americas.docx.pdf

Chicago

Ribeiro, Renata. Escassez de dados oculta gravidade dos acidentes com petróleo nas Américas. Zero Carbon Analytics, 2025. https://zerocarbon-analytics.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-11_ZCA_Escassez-de-dados-oculta-gravidade-dos-acidentes-com-petroleo-nas-Americas.docx.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{ribeiro2025escassez, author = {Ribeiro, Renata}, title = {{Escassez de dados oculta gravidade dos acidentes com petróleo nas Américas}}, institution = {Zero Carbon Analytics}, year = {2025}, month = nov, url = {https://zerocarbon-analytics.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-11_ZCA_Escassez-de-dados-oculta-gravidade-dos-acidentes-com-petroleo-nas-Americas.docx.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }