From the Abstract: “Offshore platforms are a source of chronic pollution from production water, but in recent years there has been a marked increase in the use of oil-based drilling muds and it is estimated that 20 Mt per year of petroleum hydrocarbons
From the Abstract: “Thousands of oil and gas platforms are currently operating in offshore waters globally, and this industry is expected to expand in coming decades.
This study reported on the birds observed over the course of a year (May 1976 to April 1977) from production platform 288-A located in the Buccaneer Field, located 50.5 km south of Galveston, Texas and in a control area 5–7 nautical miles west of that
From The Impact of Platforms on Migrant Birds: “Platforms have three primary proximate impacts on migrant birds: 1) they provide habitat for resting and refueling; 2) they induce nocturnal circulations; and 3) they result in some mortality through coll
This is a review paper and has one paragraph on the light from oil and gas platform flares. It is noted that this light is very intense and it cites several papers, only a few in refereed journals, regarding the possible effects on sea birds.
Our findings indicate that platforms have both beneficial and adverse proximate impacts on migrant
birds. When migrants unexpectedly encounter poor weather en route across the GOM, many
Caillouet, C. W., W. B. Jackson, G. R. Gitschlag, E. P. Wilkens, and G. M. Faw
This paper summarizes the studies assessing the effects of gas and oil development in the Buccaneer Field, located about 50 km south southeast of Galveston, Texas.
This paper discusses the authors’ observations of blue-faced boobies feeding near aplatform 190 km southwest of Cameron, Lousiana and notes that “feeding near oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico…was typically a localized event.”
