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Oil Spill Risk Management
 | Modeling Gulf of Mexico Circulation and Oil Dispersal By David E. Dietrich, Malcolm J. Bowman, Konstantin A. Korotenko, and Hamish M. E. Bowman Copyright: 2014 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781118290385 | Hardcover | 236 pages Price: $200.95 USD  |
One Line Description
This book describes and applies state-of-the-art software designed to help balance cost and profit estimates against risk in the petrochemical industry using oil extracted from ocean bottom deposits.
Audience
Petroleum engineers, operators, investors, insurers, environmentalists and managers. Geoscientists, geophysicists.
Petroleum engineers, operators, investors, insurers, environmentalists and managers. Geoscientists, geophysicists.
Description
Though renewable energy is a growing piece of the energy “pie,” fossil fuels still dominate our energy supplies and will continue to do so for decades. This makes offshore drilling, especially in places like the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea, extremely important for the future of the world’s energy supply. Unfortunately, the world has been witnessing, over and over again, accidents, deadly explosions, spills, and environmental disasters that could have been avoided with proper safety and environmental processes put in place. Rather than waiting for accidents to happen, the authors of this ground-breaking volume have devised cutting-edge new methods for mitigating risk against such spills, while weighing the risks against costs.
This book is a major tool for petroleum engineers, operators, investors, insurers, environmentalists and managers to provide guidelines for the economically and environmentally intensive issues involved. New approaches are used that advance modeling and prediction, and are of interest to the ocean and engineering scientific communities.
The authors are motivated by the applicability of coupled state-of-the-art ocean and oil material transport models to hindcast and forecast the transport of oil spill material such as from the BP/Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. This includes suspended material in depths deeper than the Florida Strait sill level that is trapped in the Gulf of Mexico for
decades to centuries due to earth rotation and buoyancy constraints, and material deposited on its bottom; this material escapes episodically in response to major storm events that break those constraints.
A must for any engineer working in offshore risk management, this ground-breaking volume will be an important tool and will offer practical solutions to these very difficult, but timely, problems.
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Though renewable energy is a growing piece of the energy “pie,” fossil fuels still dominate our energy supplies and will continue to do so for decades. This makes offshore drilling, especially in places like the Gulf of Mexico and North Sea, extremely important for the future of the world’s energy supply. Unfortunately, the world has been witnessing, over and over again, accidents, deadly explosions, spills, and environmental disasters that could have been avoided with proper safety and environmental processes put in place. Rather than waiting for accidents to happen, the authors of this ground-breaking volume have devised cutting-edge new methods for mitigating risk against such spills, while weighing the risks against costs.
This book is a major tool for petroleum engineers, operators, investors, insurers, environmentalists and managers to provide guidelines for the economically and environmentally intensive issues involved. New approaches are used that advance modeling and prediction, and are of interest to the ocean and engineering scientific communities.
The authors are motivated by the applicability of coupled state-of-the-art ocean and oil material transport models to hindcast and forecast the transport of oil spill material such as from the BP/Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. This includes suspended material in depths deeper than the Florida Strait sill level that is trapped in the Gulf of Mexico for
decades to centuries due to earth rotation and buoyancy constraints, and material deposited on its bottom; this material escapes episodically in response to major storm events that break those constraints.
A must for any engineer working in offshore risk management, this ground-breaking volume will be an important tool and will offer practical solutions to these very difficult, but timely, problems.
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Supplementary Data
The book contains applications of a state-of-the-art ocean flow model coupled to a state-of-the-art oil spill model to
• simulate and illustrate geophysical fluid dynamics relevant to transport of blowout material, including bottom deposited and deeply suspended material that is appropriate for ecosystem risk assessment
• demonstrate better simulation of the BP/Macondo blowout material transport than done by any other model
• assess oil spill initialization and predictability-- a first in ocean modeling
• assess risk for strong currents that may threaten oil rigs at specified sites, which is of major value to oil rig engineers, operators and investors including rig emplacement.
The book contains applications of a state-of-the-art ocean flow model coupled to a state-of-the-art oil spill model to
• simulate and illustrate geophysical fluid dynamics relevant to transport of blowout material, including bottom deposited and deeply suspended material that is appropriate for ecosystem risk assessment
• demonstrate better simulation of the BP/Macondo blowout material transport than done by any other model
• assess oil spill initialization and predictability-- a first in ocean modeling
• assess risk for strong currents that may threaten oil rigs at specified sites, which is of major value to oil rig engineers, operators and investors including rig emplacement.
Author / Editor Details
David Dietrich, PhD, is a leading scientist in geophysical fluid dynamics and has over 50 publications in modeling ocean and engineering flows, including applications of his internationally used DieCAST ocean flow model. He has done work all over the world, including a number of projects with the US Navy.
David Dietrich, PhD, is a leading scientist in geophysical fluid dynamics and has over 50 publications in modeling ocean and engineering flows, including applications of his internationally used DieCAST ocean flow model. He has done work all over the world, including a number of projects with the US Navy.
Malcolm Bowman is Professor of Physical Oceanography and Distinguished Service Professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. He is the Founding Director of the Stony Brook Storm Surge Research Group, President of the Stony Brook Environmental Conservancy, a Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and a Director of the Environmental Defence Society (NZ). He served on NY Mayor Bloomberg’s Panel on Climate Change, which advises the City on how best to protect the city against the threats of climate change and rising sea levels.
Konstantin A. Korotenko is a Research Professor of Physical Oceanography at the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He researches ocean dynamics and turbulence and pollution transport in the ocean. His works published in international journals are devoted to circulation and environmental problems of the Adriatic, Baltic, Black, Caspian seas and the Gulf of Mexico. He is an executive board member of the Moscow Physical Society, American Geophysical Union and an expert of the Fulbright Scholarship Program.
Hamish Bowman is a research scientist at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he runs the Geophysics Research Laboratory and curates its computational computing cluster. He is a core member of the GRASS GIS Development Team, specializing in cartographic programming and the efficient processing of large data arrays.
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