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RECORD NUMBER: 47 OF 141Main Title | Environmental Assessment of Buccaneer Gas and Oil Field in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, 1978-1979. Volume IX. Sources, Fate and Effects Modeling. | |||||||||||
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Author | Fucik, K. ; Shaw, I. T. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | National Marine Fisheries Service, Galveston, TX. Galveston Lab.;Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1980 | |||||||||||
Report Number | NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFC-43; NOAA-81121403; | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB82-161845 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Crude oil ; Marine biology ; Ecology ; Oil pollution ; Mexico Gulf ; Assessments ; Hydrocarbons ; Mathematical models ; Environmental impacts ; Sediments ; Benthos ; Plankton ; Fouling organisms ; Biomass ; Fishes ; Nutrients ; Offshore drilling ; Outer continental shelves ; Baseline studies | |||||||||||
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Collation | 150p | |||||||||||
Abstract | A model was developed for the Buccaneer gas and oil field that integrated biological, chemical (hydrocarbon), and physical submodels. State-of-the-art flow analysis techniques were used to describe the structure and function of the system. Five compartments consisting of phytoplankton, zooplankton, plankton feeders, fouling flora, and fouling fauna were identified as being system importers. Fouling feeders, particulates, the benthos, benthic feeders, and large predators compartments are exporters from the system. Hydrocarbons discharged from the platform are rapidly dispersed from around the platforms. |