Report
Review and Assessment of Underwater Sound Produced from Oil and Gas Activities and Potential Reporting Requirements under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, July 2011
Review and Assessment of Underwater Sound Produced from Oil and Gas Activities and Potential Reporting Requirements under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, July 2011
- OPRED
- Report
- EnvironmentNoise and Vibration
- Regulation and legislationUnderwater environmental noise
- DecommissioningDrillingDynamic positioning
- Navigation and positioning equipment
- Environmental impact assessmentEnvironmental permitting
- Upstream oil and gas
- Marine waters
Summary
This research review catalogues underwater sound from oil and gas operations and assesses potential reporting under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. It compares acoustic measurements and marine-animal impact criteria across seismic surveying, piling, explosive decommissioning and continuous sources, highlighting data gaps, conversion uncertainties and differences between proposed reporting thresholds and biological effects.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Underwater environmental noise.
Classifications: Decommissioning; facility dismantling.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Dynamic positioning; DP; DP operations.
Classifications: Navigation and positioning equipment; ECDIS; AIS; chart plotters.
Classifications: Environmental impact assessment; EIA.
Classifications: Environmental permitting.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Themes: environment, noise and vibration.