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An Accidental Oil Spill Along the Belgian Coast: Results from a CV Study [PDF]
This paper offers an economic assessment of the loss of non-use values resulting from different oil spill scenarios along the Belgian Coast. Estimation results show that if no oil spill prevention policy action is undertaken, a significant welfare loss ...
Karl van Biervliet +2 more
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RASING RESPONDER COMPETENCY IN OIL SPILL RESPONSE TACTICS
, 2017 In an ongoing effort toward continuous improvement and to strengthen the competencies of personnel assigned within the incident command organization to the Operations and Planning Section, including the Operations Section Chief, Chevron, in collaboration
Robert Ballesteros, Elise DeCola
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Human‐in‐the‐Loop Swarms: A Bionic Swarm Approach to Real‐World Soil Mapping
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This article introduces the “Bionic Swarm,” a novel system that lowers the barriers to real‐world swarm validation by abstracting difficult hardware tasks to app‐guided human agents. We demonstrate the system's utility through the experimental validation of a geotechnical soil‐mapping swarm algorithm and show superior performance to baseline approaches
Petras Swissler +5 more
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Oil company annual report disclosure responses to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
, 2012 This paper analyses the annual report disclosures of the other six largest oil companies in reaction to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It focusses on changes in disclosures that can be ascribed to the oil spill.
de Villiers, Charl +1 more
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Why Sample? - Understanding Common Sampling Objectives for Oil Spill Response
, 2017 #2017-204: There is a growing recognition of the role science plays in supporting oil spill response coupled with increasing reliance on data-driven management and decision-making approaches. Collecting samples for analysis of hydrocarbons
Victoria Broje +3 more
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Oil spill response in the marine environment
, 1992 The rapid economic development of many countries since World War II has resulted in a considerable increase in the marine transport of raw materials, especially of crude oils, and in offshore activities.
Doerffer, Jerzy
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The Next Generation of Planning for Offshore Oil Spill Response
, 2017 2017-333: In 2014, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) commissioned a study to inform an update of Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) regulations for offshore oil and gas facilities and pipelines at Title 30, Code of ...
John Caplis, Andrew Krieger
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Relationships with the media during the Buffalo 292 oil spill
, 2005 pgs. 6893-6894In 1996 the tank barge Buffalo 292 suffered a catastrophic structural failure, spilling nearly 5000 barrels of heavy fuel oil into Galveston Bay.
DeLong, GN
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Organizational Design for Spill Containment in Deepwater Drilling Operations in the Gulf of Mexico: Assessment of the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) [PDF]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 led to the deaths of 11 workers, a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf, and nearly three months of massive engineering and logistics efforts to stop the spill.
Macauley, Molly K. +4 more
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, 2005 pgs. 10360-10364On 22 September 2001, a collision occurred between the M/V NEW AMITY and barge, NMS No. 1486 in the Houston Ship Channel. The collision resulted in damage to a single skinned fuel tank of the NEW AMITY and created an oil spill in Upper ...
Cook, K, Henry, C, Arnhart, R
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