PHYTOREHABILITATION OF THE CONTAMINATED AREA FROM HYDROCARBURE AND HEAVY METAL

Oil industry activities have influenced environmental pollution in general showing direct impacts on ecosystems and living creatures. Soil performs various important and complex functions such as filtering, buffering, storing and transforming system, thus protecting the global ecosystem from negative effects of different contaminants. Biological process depends on the movement of micro elements and energy transformations. The ecosystems supply with the majority of food elements for fauna is provided through the surface layer of the earth. The present study aims “to identify and assess the environmental situation in Patos-Marinza industrial area as well as the environmental risk related to environment users. The study basic hypothesis is: “Patos-Marinza oil industry environment is polluted by hydrocarbons with impacts on the flora, fauna and man health”. The objectives of this study are: the identification of environmental aspects of oil pollution on flora and fauna of the area under study”. Plants may accumulate trace elements, in particular heavy metals, in their tissues, thanks to their large capacities to adapt to the different edaphic features of the environment. Therefore, plants are the intermediate reservoirs through which the trace elements moves from the earth and partially from water and air towards humans and animals.