This is the final report of a field study designed to assess the impacts of oil and gas platforms at four sites in the Gulf of Mexico located off Louisiana and Alabama.
From Objectives: “The objective of this review is to summarize the current state of knowledge about the composition of water based muds (WBM) and associated drill cuttings, their fates following discharge to the ocean, and their effects on marine organ
Davies, J. M., D. R. Bedborough, R. A. A. Blackman, J. M. Addy, J. F. Appelbee, W. C. Grogan, J. G. Parker, and A. Whitehead
From Conclusions: “This paper has considered the immediate and longer-term effects that can be measured around single well sites, at platforms during development drilling, and in the phase after drilling has ceased….The evidence discussed in this paper
