From the Abstract: “Offshore oil and gas platforms are known to function as artificial reefs. They provide a large surface area for settlement and aggregate large numbers of fish.
From the Abstract: “Fouling communities typical of shallow water inshore sites were found at three locations in the Moray Firth. At each, an initial background cover of solitary tubeworms and barnacles was overgrown by secondary fouling organisms.
Brooks, J. M., C. Fisher, H. Roberts, E. Cordes, I. Baums, B. Bernard, S. Brooke, R. Church, A. Demopoulos, P. Etnoyer, C. German, E. Goehring, C. Kellogg, I. McDonald, C. Morrison, M. Nizinski, S. Ross, T. Shank, D. Warren, S. Welsh, and G. Wolff
The platform part of this interim report discusses ROV surveys at four platforms off Louisiana.
The fouling community attached to the substructure of a semi-submersible drilling platform located in southern California was examined. From the Abstract: “Each of the four pontoons maintained a significantly different community structure.
Kapoor, S., K. J. Chauhan, A. K. Srivastava, R. Saxena, and K. L. Goyal
From the Abstract: “ONGC – a state owned company is engaged in exploitation of natural hydrocarbons from the east and the west coast of India, both near and far shore, from deep and shallow waters using both fixed and floating structures.
