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Recent discovery and expansion activities of Libyan offshore oil fields will inevitably increase the risk of oil spill as a result of exploration, drilling production and transportation of crude oil. To minimize the environmental impact of these activities on aquatic environment, and coastal areas a sound oil spill contingency planning is usually prepared. Generally this plan is based on a well-defined mathematical model to predict the fate of spilled oil and to take into account physical, chemical and biological process accompanied the movement and sometimes disappearance of the oil. These processes depend on the oil properties, hydrodynamics, meteorological and environmental conditions. They also include advection, turbulent diffusion; surface spreading, evaporation, dissolution, emulsification, hydrolysis, photo-oxidation, biodegradation and particulation A software computer program based on one dimensional mathematical model has been written to address most of the anticipated changes. The results of the simulation for 10,000 bbl/day of El- Bouricrude oil agree with the existing commercial software.