Review on Oil Spills and Their Effects

  • Lee, Hwa-Woon- (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University) ;
  • Nobuhisa-Kabayashi (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Delaware) ;
  • Ryu, Cheong-Ro (Department of Ocean Engineering, National Fisheries Univ. of Pusan)
  • Published : 1991.07.01

Abstract

With increasing offshore oil exploration, drilling, and production activities, and with a huge amount of petroleum being transported by tankers and pipelines through the ocean and coastal environment and resoures has been realized among government decision makers, oil industry personnel, and the general public. Assessment must be made of the potential risk of damage resulting from the exploration, development and transportation activities, based on predictive impact evaluations of the fate of hypothetical or real oil spills.(omitted)

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