From the Abstract: “To investigate the effects of drilling discharges on the seabed fauna, surveys were carried out in the Beatrice oilfield after drilling 13 wells with water-based muds, and then after one and five further wells had been drilled using
From the Abstract: “No reports of oil taint or elevated levels of heavy metals in pelagic fish caught around oil rig jackets (support structures) in the North Sea have been published.
Due to the potentially accumulative nature of the Fladen Ground, an area of intense oil activity in the North Sea, a survey was carried out in 1989 to map the distribution of contamination in relation to these oil activities.
