Environmental Impacts of Shewashok Oil Field on Sheep and Cow Meat Using Vital Trace Elements as Contamination Bioindicators

Authors

  • Rawaz Rostam Hamadamin Department of Basic Education, Koya University, Daniel Mitterrand Boulevard, Koya KOY45 AB64, Kurdistan Region – Iraq
  • Maamun Qadir Salih Department of Oil and Gas, Mad Institute, Arbil-Koya Road, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
  • Rostam Salam Aziz Department of Geography, Koya University, Daniel Mitterrand Boulevard, Koya KOY45 AB64, Kurdistan Region – Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21928/uhdjst.v3n1y2019.pp1-8

Keywords:

Shewashok, Oil Field, Environmental Pollution, Trace Elements, Cows and Sheep Meat.

Abstract

Ambient environment is built based on the interaction of living and non-living organism and chemical and physical compounds, and thus, oil field emissions, effluents, and its general waste can be a part of environmental condition of certain area. This study is to investigate the environmental impacts of oil field on sheep and cow meat around Shewashok oilfield. It has been performed at the Laboratories of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Koya University, by detecting and measuring heavy metals and vital trace elements as contamination indicators. 20 meat samples of domestic animals (cow and sheep) in both control and affected area were collected for the purpose of detecting the concentration of heavy metals in the animals. The samples dried and digested with concentrated HNO3 and concentrated H2O2. The concentration of heavy metals of the sample digested domestic animal was determined using inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectroscopy. This study shows that iron, cobalt, copper, zinc, arsenic, manganese, aluminum, mercury, and chromium were detected in all the meat samples. Overall, this study confirms that the cow and sheep meat are still safe to eat in both locations because only Al, Fe, and Hg were found danger in both sheep and cows’ meat in comparison with allowed limits of the World Health Organization 2017, and all other trace elements are complying with the global standards.

Author Biographies

  • Rawaz Rostam Hamadamin, Department of Basic Education, Koya University, Daniel Mitterrand Boulevard, Koya KOY45 AB64, Kurdistan Region – Iraq
    1. Full name: Rawaz Rostam Hamadamin
    2. Phone number: 009647510261066 Email: [email protected]
    3. Bibliography
    4. Born in 1987.
    5. Achieved BA in geography 2010 at Koya University.
    6. Achieved MSc in Water Resources 2013 at Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh / UK.
    7. Lecturing at Koya University since 2016 at basic study department
    8. Asist. Lecturer
    9. Published two conference papers
    10. ORCID: 0000-0001-8796-7924
    11. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=h0CTJfEAAAAJ
    12. Affiliation: Koya University.
  • Maamun Qadir Salih, Department of Oil and Gas, Mad Institute, Arbil-Koya Road, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
    1. Full name: Mamnoon Qadir SALEH
      2. Phone number: +9647507270400 Email: [email protected]
      3. Bibliography
    2. Born in 1991.
    3. Achieved BSc in Chemistry 2014 at Koya University.
    4. Achieved MSc in Detection of heavy metals in parasitized domestic animals as environmental bio indicators 2017 at Siirt University. Turkey.

    5. ORCID: Not Available.
      5. Affiliation: TTOPCO
  • Rostam Salam Aziz, Department of Geography, Koya University, Daniel Mitterrand Boulevard, Koya KOY45 AB64, Kurdistan Region – Iraq
    Research Interests Rostam is an Assistant Lecturer of Human Geography in the Department of Geography , where he joined the work at Koya University since 2006. He gained a B.Sc. degree in Geography from Salahaddin University in 1993, since 20/11/1993 – 2004 Appointed as a teacher and senior assistant in secondary school, Koya, Iraq. He obtained  M.Sc. degree in rural geography from koya University in 2006.Obtained phd degree in Urban geography(koya university ) in jun 2013..Obtained Assistant Prof in Aug 2017. Has published sevral articls and attend sevral International conferences.  
    • He is a member of the kurdistan Geography Society(K.G.S).
    • He is a member of the kurdistan Encyclopedia Society(K.E.S).
    • He is a member of the zanko organization for Environment protedaition
    • Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&user=qB6oDasAAAAJ
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Published

2019-01-25

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019)

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Articles

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Environmental Impacts of Shewashok Oil Field on Sheep and Cow Meat Using Vital Trace Elements as Contamination Bioindicators. (2019). UHD Journal of Science and Technology, 3(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.21928/uhdjst.v3n1y2019.pp1-8