Fish were collected near two actively drilling, petroleum-well platforms and from control areas near the Flower Garden Banks, a natural reef area in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.
Discharges of contaminated drill cuttings have caused appreciable ecological change of the benthos adjacent to many oil and gas platforms in the North Sea.
The pressure for more energy demand is a strong driver for the construction of offshore oil and gas platforms. This also applies to the Adriatic Sea where, since 1960, several gas fields have been commissioned.
Gomiero, A., E. Volpato, C. Nasci, G. Perra, A. Viarengo, A. Dagnino, A. Spagnolo, and G. Fabi
As a consequence of the growing global demand of energy supplies, intense oil and gas exploration and exploitation programs have been carried out worldwide especially within the marine environments.
Gomiero, A., A. M. De Blasi, L. Da Ros, C. Nasci, A. Spagnolo, G. Scarcella, and G. Fabi
Detecting the anthropogenic impacts of offshore gas platforms requires reliable tools, because the traditional evaluation based only on chemical analyses is neither appropriate nor sufficiently sensitive.
Gomiero, A., L. da Ros, C. Nasci, F. Meneghetti, A. Spagnolo, and G. Fabi
Despite a large number of gas platforms existing in the Adriatic Sea, which is a semi-enclosed basin characterized by a slow turnover rate and increasing industrial as well as other anthropogenic activities, the effects of these structures on the aquat
Davies, J. M., J. M. Addy, R. A. Blackman, J. R. Blanchard, J. E. Ferbrache, D. C. Moore, H. J. Somerville, A. Whitehead, and T. Wilkinson
The environmental effects of oil-based drilling mud cuttings have been evaluated using all the data available from monitoring around North Sea platforms.
To appreciate the impact of large-scale industrial operations on the marine environment requires a range of scientific studies which ideally should include physical, chemical and biological surveys of the various environmental compartments likely to be
