Oil spills in cold climates with special reference to the transportation and exploration of hydrocarbons in the Kara Sea ...
Oil spilled in ice infested waters have frequently been under investigation through the last twenty years. This has been induced by the prospects of large oil reserves offshore both in the American and Russian Arctic. Two oil spill scenarios considering the oil exploration in the Kara Sea have been...
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Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
1992
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.34267 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/286958 |
| Summary: | Oil spilled in ice infested waters have frequently been under investigation through the last twenty years. This has been induced by the prospects of large oil reserves offshore both in the American and Russian Arctic. Two oil spill scenarios considering the oil exploration in the Kara Sea have been developed. In this work the fate and behaviour of the oil in ice, environmental conditions in the Kara Sea and the present and past exploration of the region has been summarised. Oil spilled under ice will be encapsulated within the growing ice field for then to be released, without a change in properties, the following season. The movement of the oil will be determined by the motion of the ice. The amount of oil which is contained by the ice and its spreading is determined by the under ice morphology. Oil spilled in open ice will be contained by the ice only to be released when the ice breaks up and melts. No large scale mechanical clean up technology has been developed. Burning might be feasible of newly ... |
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