Offshore oil and gas development activities potentially causing long-term environmental effects

Neff, J. M., N. N. Rabalais, and D. F. Boesch

Abstract

This paper summarizes all of the activities, from seismic surveying to the refining of petroleum that are involved in the production of offshore oil and gas fields and the potential effects to the environment of each activity is discussed.

Date: 

1987

Book/Report Title: 

Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development

Pages: 

149–173

Editors: 

D. F. Boesch and N. N. Rabalais

Publisher: 

Elsevier Applied Science, London

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