Oil spill modeling in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea in support of accelerated offshore oil and gas exploration

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Steve Brenner]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Ocean Dynamics, 65/12(2015-12-01), 1685-1697
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a Since the discovery of major reserves in the Israeli exclusive economic zone (EEZ) 6years ago, exploration and drilling for natural gas and oil have proceeded at an accelerated pace. As part of the licensing procedure for drilling, an environmental impact assessment and an emergency response plan must be presented to the authorities, which include several prespecified oil spill simulations. In this study, the MEDSLIK oil spill model has been applied for this purpose. The model accounts for time-dependent advection, dispersion, and physiochemical weathering of the surface slick. It is driven by currents produced by high-resolution dynamic downscaling of ocean reanalysis data and winds extracted from global atmospheric analyses. Worst case scenarios based on 30-day well blowouts under four sets of environmental conditions were simulated for wells located at 140, 70, and 20km off the coast of central Israel. For the well furthest from the coast, the amount of oil remaining in the surface slick always exceeds the amount deposited on the coast. For the mid-distance well, the cases were evenly split. For the well closest to the coast, coastal deposition always exceeds the oil remaining in the slick. Additional simulations with the wind switched off helped highlight the importance of the wind in evaporation of the oil and in transporting the slick toward the southeastern coast. 
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690 7 |a Eastern Mediterranean Sea  |2 nationallicence 
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