Stephan, C. D., B. G. Dansby, H. R. Osburn, G. C. Matlock, R. K. Riechers, and R. Rayburn
This papers gives a list of recommendations developed by the Texas Artificial Reef Advisory Committee. It covers all forms of artificial reefs including offshore oil and gas platforms.
From the Abstract: “The conversion of abandoned offshore platforms into artificial reefs has been done previously with little cost savings and often at considerable added expense to the lessees for transportation to an approved reef site.
From the Abstract: “Onshore-only disposition of retired offshore oil and gas platforms has become a core strategic objective for ocean/environmental advocates and policy makers.
In the next two decades, the UK will have to decommission most of its offshore platforms, when they cease cost-effective production and become redundant.
From the Abstract: “The 27 oil and gas platforms offshore southern California will eventually reach the end of their useful lifetimes (estimated between 2015 and 2030) and will be decommissioned.
From the Abstract: “The Louisiana and Texas Artificial Reef Programs are the largest rigs-to-reef programs in the world. The program involves donating obsolete oil and gas structures for use as artificial reefs in lieu of on-shore removal.
This article focuses on how the debate over the deep-water disposal of offshore oil and gas installations has been central to shaping North Sea artificial reef policy.
From the Abstract: “This article explores how in the years after 1980 a spectrum of historical actors came to see petroleum platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as a necessary part of the Gulf ecosystem and how such views affected platform removal policies.
