
Oil Spill Science and Technology
Description
Key Features
- Updated with new chapters on risk analysis and communication, contingency planning, restoration, and case studies
- Supported with technological advances evolved from the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil tragedy and events in the Arctic/Antarctic
- Multi-contributed from various industry experts to provide an extensive background in technical equipment and worldwide procedures used today
Readership
Petroleum engineers; Environmental engineers and managers; Offshore engineers; HSE experts; Researchers in oil spill polution; Local environmental agencies; Graduate students in environmental studies
Table of Contents
1. Spills and Risk Perceptions
2. Quantification of Oil Spill Risk
3. Oil Physical Properties: Measurement and Correlation
4. Chemical Fingerprints of Crude Oils and Petroleum Products
5. Oil Spill Remote Sensing
6. Oil Spill Detection Using Spaceborne SAR imagery: A New Era of Sentinel-1
7. Laser Fluorosensors
8. Introduction to Oil Spill Modeling
9. Response in Fast Currents
10. In-situ Burning: An Update
11. Shoreline Countermeasures
12. Bioremediation of Oil Spills on Land
13. Sunken and Submerged Oil
14. Oil Pollution in Antarctica
15. DeepWater Horizon Well Blowout Mass Balance
16. Assessing the Increase in Background Oil Contamination Levels Along Alabama's Beaches Resulting from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
17. Remote Sensing of Oil Slicks for the Deepwater Horizon Damage Assessment
18. The Hebei Spirit Oil Spill, 2007
19. Health Aspects of the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill
20. Effects of Oil in the Environment
Product details
- No. of pages: 1078
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Gulf Professional Publishing 2016
- Published: November 23, 2016
- Imprint: Gulf Professional Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128094136
- eBook ISBN: 9780128110966
About the Author
Mervin Fingas
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