The objectives of this study were 1) “to detect and measure potential long-term (or short- term) chemical, physical, and biological changes around oil and gas platforms in the southern Santa Maria Basin [located off Point Conception and Point Arguello]
Plante-Cuny, M. R., C. Salenpicard, C. Grenz, R. Plante, E. Alliot, and C. Barranguet
From the Abstract: “Effects of an experimental pollution by neogenous and fossil organic matter on microphyto- and macrozoobenthic communities were studied in situ over a 1 yr period (July 1989 to May 1990) in a shallow microtidal bay (Gulf of Fos, sou
From the Abstract: “Shell Malaysia is an exploration, and production (EP) oil and gas company in Malaysia, a contractor to the national oil company, Petroliam Nasional Malaysia (PETRONAS), operating in Malaysia since 1910.
From the Abstract: “By using community parameters such as diversity of equitability, it has been shown that the [benthic] fauna responds with a dramatic drop in values of these measures closest to the platform.
Jones, D. O. B., B. D. Wigham, I. R. Hudson, and B. J. Bett
From the Abstract: “The effects of local-scale anthropogenic disturbance from active drilling platforms on epibenthic megafaunal abundance, diversity and assemblage pattern were examined in two west of Shetland hydrocarbon fields at 420 and 508 m water
From the Abstract: “The response of a deep, cold-water benthic community to physical disturbance from offshore drilling was investigated using Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) video in the Faroe–Shetland Channel.
From the Abstract: “Recovery of megabenthic assemblages from physical disturbance at the Laggan deep-water hydrocarbon drilling site in the Faroe−Shetland Channel was assessed using remotely operated vehicle quantitative video survey.
Jones, D. O. B., J. J. Cruz-Motta, D. Bone, and J. I. Kaariainen
From the Abstract: “The response of a deep-water megafaunal assemblage to sedimentation disturbance from hydrocarbon drilling was investigated using remotely operated vehicle video off the Atlantic coast of Venezuela.
