Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil Production

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Prologue

   • Brian S. Middleditch, Benny J. Gallaway

   Pages 1-14

3. Hydrocarbons and Sulfur

   • Brian S. Middleditch

   Pages 15-54

4. Biocides

   • Brian S. Middleditch

   Pages 55-57

5. Sedimentology and Geochemistry of Recent Sediments

   • John B. Anderson, Richard B. Wheeler, Rudolph R. Schwarzer

   Pages 59-67

6. Surficial Sediments and Suspended Particulate Matter

   • James M. Brooks, Denis A. Wiesenburg, Claude R. Schwab, Ernie L. Estes, Robert F. Shokes

   Pages 69-115

7. Total Organic Carbon and Carbon Isotopes of Sediments

   • E. William Behrens

   Pages 117-131

8. Distribution and Abundance of Macrobenthic and Meiobenthic Organisms

   • Donald E. Harper Jr., Deborah L. Potts, Robert R. Salzer, Robert J. Case, Rebecca L. Jaschek, Constance M. Walker

   Pages 133-177

9. Observations on the Effects of Oil Field Structures on Their Biotic Environment: Platform Fouling Community

   • Nick Fotheringham

   Pages 179-208

10. The Effect of Structures on Migratory and Local Marine Birds

    • Glenn D. Aumann

    Pages 209-221

11. Bacterial Community Composition and Activity

    • Ronald K. Sizemore, Chi-Hsin Hsu, Kurt D. Olsen

    Pages 223-235

12. Effects on Artificial Reef and Demersal Fish and Macrocrustacean Communities

    • Benny J. Gallaway, Larry R. Martin, Randall L. Howard, Gregory S. Boland, George D. Dennis

    Pages 237-299

13. Acute Toxicity and Aquatic Hazard Associated with Discharged Formation Water

    • Curt D. Rose, Timothy J. Ward

    Pages 301-327

14. Environmental Synthesis Using an Ecosystems Model

    • Kenneth W. Fucik, Ivan T. Show

    Pages 329-353

15. Currents and Hydrography of the Buccaneer Field and Adjacent Waters

    • Larry J. Danek, Michael S. Tomlinson

    Pages 355-385

16. Hydrodynamic Modeling of Discharges

    • Gerald W. Smedes, Richard P. Herbst, Jack Calman

    Pages 387-402

17. Transport and Dispersion of Potential Contaminants

    • Reed S. Armstrong

    Pages 403-420

18. Epilogue

    • Brian S. Middleditch

    Pages 421-432

19. Back Matter

    Pages 433-446

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The Buccaneer Gas and Oil Field Study has been the most comprehensive research project to date concerned with assessing the ecological effects of offshore production activities. It took nearly five years to complete and involved almost 30 individual research groups. All of the raw data have been archived with NOAA's Environmental Data and Information Services, and detailed technical reports have been deposited with the National Technical Information Service so the interested investigator should be able to gain access to them. However, we felt that it would be desirable to present a distillation of our more significant findings in a form that was more readily available to the scientific and lay community. Thus, we conducted a symposium. on the study during EXPOCHEM '80 at the Astrohall, Houston, Texas during October, 1980. This volume comprises the proceedings of that symposium. All but two of the papers presented are included in this book. Manuscripts were not received from Dr. D. A. Wiesenburg (Texas A&M University: Volatile Hydrocarbons) or Dr. J. Tillery (Southwest Research Institute: Trace Metals), but these topics are adequately covered by other authors. An introductory chapter was added to place the study in its proper perspective and to provide some background material on the Buccaneer Field, a brief chapter on biocides was inserted since this topic generated much dis­ cussion at the symposium, and a bibliography is provided to direct the interested reader to sources of additional published infor­ mation on the Study.

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