Review of Existing and Future Potential Treatments for Reducing Underwater Sound from Oil and Gas Industry Activities
Noise Control Engineering completed a major study to identify current and future methods of reducing underwater sound from all oil and gas industry activities. The work was funded by the Joint Industry Program on E&P Sound and Marine Life (JIP), a group organized under the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP). The report discusses noise control options for a large array of oil and gas industry activities including: seismic surveys, pile driving, underwater explosives, vessel operations, drilling and production, dredging, post trenching and aircraft. Just a few of the methods of sound reduction mentioned in the report are alternative sources/methods for seismic surveys, pile driving, and explosives, bubble curtains and barriers, quiet propeller designs, and machinery treatments for vessels and platforms. There is also a discussion of underwater sound generation mechanisms for nearly all oil and gas industry activities.
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Corporate Authors:
Noise Control Engineering, Incorporated
799 Middlesex Turnpike
Billerica, MA United States 01821 -
Authors:
- Spence, Jesse
- Fischer, Ray
- Bahtiarian, Mike
- Boroditsky, Leo
- Jones, Nathan
- Dempsey, Ron
- Publication Date: 2007-12-31
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 193p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aircraft; Dredging; Drilling; Earthquakes; Explosives; Gas industry; Noise control; Pile driving; Surveying; Underwater sound; Vessel operations
- Uncontrolled Terms: Oil industry
- Subject Areas: Environment; Transportation (General); I15: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01121760
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: NCE Report 07-001
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 17 2009 12:30PM