Environmental impacts of the deep-water oil and gas industry: a review to guide management strategies

EE Cordes, DOB Jones, TA Schlacher… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The industrialization of the deep sea is expanding worldwide. Increasing oil and gas
exploration activities in the absence of sufficient baseline data in deep-sea ecosystems has …

State of the art review and future directions in oil spill modeling

ML Spaulding - Marine pollution bulletin, 2017 - Elsevier
A review of the state of the art in oil spill modeling, focused on the period from 2000 to
present is provided. The review begins with an overview of the current structure of spill …

Chronic oiling in global oceans

Y Dong, Y Liu, C Hu, IR MacDonald, Y Lu - Science, 2022 - science.org
Ocean oil slicks can be attributed to natural seepages or to anthropogenic discharges. To
date, the global picture of their distribution and relative natural and anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Oil spill detection by imaging radars: Challenges and pitfalls

W Alpers, B Holt, K Zeng - Remote sensing of environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Criteria for discriminating between radar signatures of oil films and biogenic slicks visible on
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the sea surface as dark patches are critically …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impacts of oil-associated marine snow formation and sedimentation during and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

KL Daly, U Passow, J Chanton, D Hollander - Anthropocene, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest in US history, unprecedented for
the depth and volume of oil released, the amount of dispersants applied, and the …

Microbial production and consumption of hydrocarbons in the global ocean

CR Love, EC Arrington, KM Gosselin, CM Reddy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Seeps, spills and other oil pollution introduce hydrocarbons into the ocean. Marine
cyanobacteria also produce hydrocarbons from fatty acids, but little is known about the size …

Classification of oil spill by thicknesses using multiple remote sensors

O Garcia-Pineda, G Staples, CE Jones, C Hu… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an operational tool for monitoring and
assessment of oil spills. Satellite SAR has primarily been used to detect the …

Large-scale deposition of weathered oil in the Gulf of Mexico following a deep-water oil spill

IC Romero, G Toro-Farmer, AR Diercks, P Schwing… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) drilling rig in 2010 released an
unprecedented amount of oil at depth (1,500 m) into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Sedimentary …

Partial Photochemical Oxidation Was a Dominant Fate of Deepwater Horizon Surface Oil

CP Ward, CM Sharpless, DL Valentine… - Environmental …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Following the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout in 2010, oil floated on the Gulf of Mexico
for over 100 days. In the aftermath of the blowout, substantial accumulation of partially …

How the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill reshaped our understanding of crude oil photochemical weathering at sea: a past, present, and future perspective

CP Ward, EB Overton - Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The weathering of crude oil at sea has been researched for nearly half a century. However,
there have been relatively few opportunities to validate laboratory-based predictions about …