Oil spills are of tremendous concern due to their potential impact on economic and ecological systems and often lead to negative and long-term impacts on the environment. To minimize these impacts, preparedness and response are always required for any oil spill, including the monitoring, prevention, reduction, response, and remediation of oil pollution. No matter how carefully the transport systems are monitored, accidents are likely to occur resulting in oil spills. Oil spill residues washing onto beaches is a common worldwide problem. Sand beaches provide a habitat to many species and maintain biodiversity by regulating the biogeochemical cycles and the impacts get aggravated when the oil reaches the beaches. The oil starts penetrating the sand and the depth of the penetration depends on the grain size. Over a period, adhering of the oil droplets to sand grains results in the formation of oil sludge balls due to weathering and wave action. This makes the sand beaches often more contaminated than seawater and arises the complexity in treatment. Due to the complexity of the situations, more than one of the treatment methods is combined or integrated with treating these sands. Overviewing the advantages and limitations of Physical, Biological, Chemical and thermal treatment technologies, the Physico-Chemical approach seems to be promising and feasible.