Since its installation 1 October 1981, the platform High Island A389-A has progressed from a bare steel structure in 125 m of water to a climax bluewater artificial reef community including a number of hermatypic coral species.
Existing scientific information, from published studies of FADs elsewhere or from fundamental understanding of fish aggregation and attraction, phenomena and processes, is not sufficient for understanding or predicting potential FADs effects of GOM DPS
Gallaway, B. J., M. F. Johnson, L. F. Martin, F. J. Margarff, G. L. Lewbel, R. L. Howard, and G. S. Boland
Surveys of biofouling macroepibiota and fishes were made in June 1978 at four production platforms offshore Louisiana and were supplemented by limited observations made at an additional 15 platforms in August and September of 1978.
Divers surveyed the fishes and major invertebrates living around Platforms Hazel and Hilda and a natural rocky site in the Santa Barbara Channel and the wastewater outfall pipe in Santa Monica Bay.
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.
Bortone, S. A., R. K. Turpin, R. C. Cody, C. M. Bundrick
Visual census (5-min point-count, 100 m2) was used to estimate fish assemblage parameters associated with artificial reef variables from 64 reefs over a 3-yr period in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Excerpt from the Abstract: “Bioindicator studies were carried out on a commercial groundfish, American plaice, at the Terra Nova development site prior to commencing (1997) and during (2000 and 2001) drilling operations.
Platforms are long-term, high profile structures of pilings and conductors that pass from beneath the seafloor to above the sea surface. They are built to remain stable and safe for a minimum of 20 years.
