Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
| Project Number |
413 |
| Date of Summary |
March 1, 2004 |
| Subject |
Assessment of the
Use of Dispersants on Marine Oil Spills in California |
| Performing Activity |
S.L. Ross Environmental Research |
| Principal Investigator |
Ken Trudel and Sy
Ross |
| Contracting Agency |
Minerals Management Service |
| Estimated Completion |
Completed |
| Description |
To conduct an
assessment of the operational and environmental factors associated with the
use of chemical dispersants to treat oil spills in California Marine waters,
with a view toward expediting dispersant use decision-making and planning
for such spills. |
| Progress |
A kick off meeting
was held in the Pacific OCS Regional office on June 6, 2001. The meeting
included participants from MMS, SL Ross, OSPR, EPA, NOAA, and USCG. The
meeting focused on determining spill scenarios and gathering data for those
spills. The contractor gathered the remaining environmental and engineering
data necessary to run the model, ran their model and generated a final
report that is available. A paper was presented at the 2002 AMOP meeting and
another presentation was made at the International Oil Spill Conference in
2003 in Vancouver, B.C. |
| Report |
|
AA
(169 pages) |
Assessment of the Use of
Dispersants on Marine Oil Spills in California, S.L. Ross Environmental
Research, Ltd., June, 2002. |
|
AB
(18 pages) |
Trudel, K., Ross, S., Belore,
R., Buffington, S., Ogawa, C., Panzer, D., “Assessment of the Use of
Dispersants on Oil Spills in California Marine Waters”, Proceedings of the
25th Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, pp.
755-772, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 2002. |
|
AC
(16 pages) |
Trudel, K., Ross, S., Belore,
R., Buffington, S., Rainey, G., Ogawa, C., Panzer, D., “Technical Assessment
of Using Dispersants on Marine Oil Spills in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and
California”, Proceedings of the 2003 International Oil Spill Conference, pp.
515-522, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, D.C., 2003. |
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