This book provides more comprehensive materials and discussion on environmental impact of the offshore oil and gas industry than any other single source currently available. Specifically, multi-disciplinary perspectives are given, addressing worldwide advances in studies, control, and prevention of the industry's impact on the marine environment and its living resources. Unique to this text are the data on environmental aspects of Russian offshore oil and gas developments presented by the leading expert on the problem. The author considers the main impact factors of the offshore activity and outlines conditions providing the balance of interests for the oil industry and fisheries. Special attention is given to the ecotoxicological and biogeochemical characteristics of oil and gas hydrocarbons in the marine environment. Based on all presently available information, specific environmental requirements for discharges and seawater quality are substantiated. Final chap! ters summarize strategic principles of environmental protection and ecological monitoring in relation to the offshore oil and gas activity. Appendix includes Russian standards of Maximum Permissible Concentrations (MPC) and Approximate Safe Impact Limits (ASIL) for about 200 chemicals used in oil and gas production. Over 700 references, 69 tables and 87 illustrations.
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"Russian ecologist Patin synthesizes the massive research on all aspects of the impact of expanding the industry onto the continental shelf on the environment, fish stock, and fisheries in shelf waters. He emphasizes the environmental levels, behavior, and toxicities of oil and gas hydrocarbons and related chemicals and wastes, including so-called low-toxicity drilling muds and cuttings. He also analyzes strategic principles of environmental management and regulation for environmental protection and ecological monitoring in relation to offshore oil and gas activity. An impetus for the work is the increasing exploitation of Russia's offshore oil and gas resources, the richest in the world, and the recent bitter dispute with Exxon about it." -- SciTech Book News, Book News, Inc. December, 1999
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Original Language: Russian
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The silhouettes of the oil platforms and drilling rigs located dozens of miles offshore in waters hundreds of meters deep have become a typical feature of many shelf areas in the World Ocean. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anthropogenic press, accidental blowouts, ocean pelagic areas, drilling fluid components, heavy oil pollution, methane homologues, water toxicology, fisheries standards, drilling discharges, stricter environmental requirements, drilling accidents, ecotoxicological methods, drilling wastes, fisheries consequences, maximum permissible discharges, gas condensate field, tanker transportation, commercial organisms, chronic oil pollution, accidental oil spills, oil hydrocarbons, trawling fishing, marine monitoring, chronic contamination, drilling fluids Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, New York, Elsevier Applied Science, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Fisheries Toxicology, Sea of Asov, Baltic Sea, United States, Persian Gulf, Sea of Okhotsk, Great Britain, Test Duration, Oil Toxicant, Mediterranean Sea, Advisory Committee, Bering Sea, Exxon Valdez, Marine Organisms Exposure, Working Group, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Caribbean Sea, International Conference, Amoco Cadiz New!
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The silhouettes of the oil platforms and drilling rigs located dozens of miles offshore in waters hundreds of meters deep have become a typical feature of many shelf areas in the World Ocean. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
anthropogenic press, accidental blowouts, ocean pelagic areas, drilling fluid components, heavy oil pollution, methane homologues, water toxicology, fisheries standards, drilling discharges, stricter environmental requirements, drilling accidents, ecotoxicological methods, drilling wastes, fisheries consequences, maximum permissible discharges, gas condensate field, tanker transportation, commercial organisms, chronic oil pollution, accidental oil spills, oil hydrocarbons, trawling fishing, marine monitoring, chronic contamination, drilling fluids Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, New York, Elsevier Applied Science, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Fisheries Toxicology, Sea of Asov, Baltic Sea, United States, Persian Gulf, Sea of Okhotsk, Great Britain, Test Duration, Oil Toxicant, Mediterranean Sea, Advisory Committee, Bering Sea, Exxon Valdez, Marine Organisms Exposure, Working Group, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Caribbean Sea, International Conference, Amoco Cadiz New!
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- Oil and Gas: The Production Story (Oil and Gas Production Series) by Ron Baker on page 134, page 138, and page 155
- Marine Pollution by Lord Callaghan on page 3, page 36, and page 390
- The Mediterranean Sea (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry / Water Pollution) by Alain Saliot on page 149, and page 155
- Responses of Marine Organisms to Pollutants by John J. Stegeman on page 207
- Oil Spills by Joanna Burger on page 330
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- It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources by James Ridgeway in Back Matter
- Global Ecodynamics by Kirill Y. Kondratyev in Back Matter
- Global Monitoring: The Challenges of Access to Data by Ray Harris in Back Matter
- Petroleum and the Environment (AGI Environmental Awareness Series) by William E. Harrison in Back Matter
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