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Environmental Impact of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry by Stanislav Patin - a unique summary of world-wide studies on the environmental issues associated with offshore oil and gas exploration and development |
Offshore Oil and Continental Shelf Ecology
Author: Dr Stanislav Patin
VNIRO Publishing, Moscow, 2001. 241pp (Russian)
* The English translation of the book will be soon available at offshore-environment.com in the digital form
The new book by Dr. Stanislav Patin "Offshore Oil and Continental Shelf Ecology" analyzes the recent advances in Russian and world-wide studies on environmental aspects of the offshore oil and gas industry and develops a unique approach to environmental impact assessments of the offshore activity.
The extensive database for this work includes a vast body of published results on the issue as well as numerous data obtained in recent years during drilling activities on the Sakhalin shelf under major projects, Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2.
Unlike the first publication on the subject, "Environmental Impact of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry" [*available from this site], which provided a detailed multidisciplinary summary on the issue, this book focuses mostly on the methodology of environmental impact assessments in relation to marine ecosystems and living resources.
Dr.Patin suggests and illustrates new methodological approaches and criteria based on consideration of natural ecosystem variability, stages of the stress effects development, nature and scale of the impact, etc.
The book covers all factors of the industry's impact on every stage of the offshore oil and gas development. The balance of interests between the oil production and fishing industry is considered.
For the fist time, Russian experience of oil exploration and dealing with environmental problems on Sakhalin shelf is summarized. The latest results of ecological monitoring in the region are provided. Dr. Patin gives an in-depth discussion of the Sakhalin oil projects and their actual and potential environmental consequences in the background of complex and dynamic processes in the shelf ecosystems.
This analysis combined with a detailed examination of published research on oil activity in other marine regions (over 500 references) provides a full and accurate picture of what is happening and what could happen in the sea during the offshore oil production.
Table of Contents of Dr.Patin's new book "Offshore Oil and Continental Shelf Ecology"
Author's Foreword from Dr.Patin's new book "Offshore Oil and Continental Shelf Ecology"
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