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dc.contributor.authorErbe, Christine
dc.contributor.editorSociety of Petroleum Engineers
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:43:29Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:43:29Z
dc.date.created2013-03-27T20:00:56Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationErbe, Christine. 2012. Streamlining the environmental impact assessment process of underwater noise from petroleum exploration & production operations, in Proceedings of the SPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploraton and Production, Sep 11-13 2012. Perth, Western Australia: Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40503
dc.identifier.doi10.2118/157462-MS
dc.description.abstract

Underwater noise is increasingly being considered a water quality indicator by governments around the world and plays an increasing role in environmental impact assessments of marine industrial developments. To-date, however, there are no standards for the measurement of underwater noise from petroleum operations, nor for data analysis, nor for reporting. As a result, the quality of many environmental impact assessments is poor, the results are not reliable, data are not comparable, errors (which are hardly ever assessed or reported) are huge, outcomes (e.g. impact zones, imposed mitigation requirements) are arbitrary and costs are as unpredictable as the lottery. The Centre for Marine Science & Technology at Curtin University is currently developing guidelines for underwater noise assessments with support from Chevron Australia. As a first step, we have reviewed international regulation of underwater noise from petroleum operations finding large disagreement in methodology and approaches, criteria and threshold levels, acoustic quantities assessed, and imposed mitigation paradigms. Commonalities include requirements for baseline sound measurements, anthropogenic noise source characterization and monitoring of marine life.

dc.publisherSociety of Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
dc.subjectmarine
dc.subjectunderwater
dc.subjectenvironmental
dc.subjectnoise
dc.titleStreamlining the environmental impact assessment process of underwater noise from petroleum exploration and production operations
dc.typeConference Paper
dcterms.source.titleSPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploraton and Production.
dcterms.source.seriesSPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploraton and Production.
dcterms.source.conferenceSPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploraton and Production.
dcterms.source.conference-start-dateSep 11 2013
dcterms.source.conferencelocationPerth, Western Australia
dcterms.source.placeUnited States
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