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- Article name
- Environmental consequences of sea bottom oil and gas development
- Authors
- GOVORUSHKO S. M., , sgovor@tig.dvo.ru, Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia
- Keywords
- hydrobionts / sea birds / accidents / oil-producing platforms / drilling mud / associated waters / carbohydrates / plankton
- Year
- 2011 Issue 3 Pages 27 - 32
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- Abstract
- The current levels of offshore oil and gas production in the world are described, the stages of exploration and development oil and gas fields are listed, characteristic of this industrial techno-logy is given, main factors of influence of offshore oil and gas production on the environment are determined, major accident that occurred on the offshore oil platforms are described. The effect of marine oil and gas production on the environment is considered, the behavior of oil in marine water is described, nature of the influence of oil pollution on aquatic organisms, seabirds, phytoplankton and zooplankton is explained, the data on the scale of human mortality in the economic sector are given.
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