Oil Spill Response: A Global Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Oil Spill Response and the Challenges of Arctic Marine Shipping: An Assessment by the Arctic Council....Pages 3-3
Oil Spills in the Arctic: A Review of Three Decades of Research at Environment Canada....Pages 5-6
Oil Under Ice Detection: What is the State-of-the-Art?....Pages 7-19
Practical and Effective Technologies for Oil Spill Recovery Operations in Arctic Conditions....Pages 21-21
 In-Situ Burning for Oil Spills in Arctic Waters: State-of-the-Art and Future Research Needs....Pages 23-39
Recent Mid-Scale Research on Using Oil Herding Surfactants to Thicken Oil Slicks in Pack Ice for In-Situ Burning....Pages 41-62
Weathering of Oil Spills Under Arctic Conditions: Field Experiments with Different Ice Conditions Followed by In-Situ Burning....Pages 63-64
Dispersant Effectiveness Experiments Conducted on Alaskan Crude Oils in Very Cold Water at the Ohmsett Facility....Pages 65-65
Enhanced Chemical Dispersion Using the Propeller Wash from Response Vessels....Pages 67-67
Evaluation of Arctic In-Situ Oil Spill Response Countermeasures....Pages 69-69
Oma Formation in Ice-Covered Brackish Waters: Large-Scale Experiments....Pages 71-88
Joint Industry Program on Oil Spill in Arctic and Ice Infested Waters: An Overview....Pages 89-89
Countermeasures for the Beaufort Transition Season....Pages 91-109
New Oil Containment Technology: For Fast and Narrow Waters....Pages 113-113
Viscous Oil Pumping Technology and Annular Water Lubrication Techniques....Pages 115-115
Development of a Strategy for Offshore Use of Dispersants in Norwegian Waters....Pages 117-118
French Sea Trials on Chemical Dispersion: DEPOL 04 & 05....Pages 119-140
Dispersant Research in a Specialized Wave Tank: Mimicking the Mixing Energy of Natural Sea States....Pages 141-142
Wave Tank Studies on Chemical Dispersant Effectiveness: Dispersed Oil Droplet Size Distribution....Pages 143-157
Wave Tank Studies on Formation and Transport of OMA from the Chemically Dispersed Oil....Pages 159-177
Optimal Nutrient Application Strategies for the Bioremediation of Tidally-Influenced Beaches....Pages 181-182
Benthos Community Monitoring of A Dumping Area During Liquid Natural Gas Plant Construction....Pages 183-189
Oil Fingerprinting and Spill Source Identification....Pages 191-192
What Compounds in Crude Oil Cause Chronic Toxicity to Larval Fish?....Pages 193-194
Potential Impacts of an Orimulsion Spill on Marine (Atlantic Herring; Clupea harengus ) and Estuarine (Mummichog; Fundulus heteroclitus ) Fish Species in Atlantic Canada....Pages 195-196
Effectiveness of Dispersants for Coastal Habitat Protection as a Function of Types of Oil and Dispersant....Pages 197-197
How Clean is Clean?: Development of Monitoring Methods to Determine Environmental and Socially Acceptable End-Points of Clean-Up....Pages 199-199
Microbial and Abiotic Removal of Ydrocarbon Components in Oil Tanker Ballast Water Processed by the Alyeska Ballast Water Treatment Facility in Port Valdez, Alaska....Pages 203-204
Oil Spill Drift and Fate Model....Pages 205-220
Modelling of Oil Droplet Kinetics Under Breaking Waves....Pages 221-236
The Necessity of Applying Sar Imagery to Oil Spill Modeling in Cases of Data Obfuscation....Pages 237-256
Prevention of Oil Spills Caused by Premeditated Negative Influence....Pages 259-259
Spillview: A Support to Decision-Making Software in Emergency Response to Marine Oil Spill....Pages 261-270
Accidental Marine Pollution in Belgium: The Emergence of Response Strategies....Pages 271-287
Dimensioning of Norwegian Oil Spill Preparedness: Focusing on the Arctic North Norway and the Barents Sea....Pages 289-289
Regional Citizens’ Advisory Councils: Ensuring Safe Transport of Crude Oil in Alaska....Pages 291-292
The Role of the Regional Environmental Emergencies Team (REET) in Emergency Response in the Atlantic Region of Canada....Pages 293-293
Minimizing Environmental Impact of Oil Spills: Statoil’S R&D Position and Priorities....Pages 295-296
Modeling Impacts and Tradeoffs of Dispersant Use on Oil Spills....Pages 297-320
Development of Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems and Impact on Oil Plume Drift Calculations....Pages 321-322
Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response Working Group of the Arctic Council: Recent Marine Environmental Initiatives in the Arctic Council....Pages 323-325
The Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea System with High Oil Spill Risk....Pages 327-340
UK: Recent Counter Pollution R&D Activities....Pages 341-341
Ice Overview for the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River....Pages 343-343
Back Matter....Pages 345-365