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Title: USDOE study: Human health and ecological risk assessment for produced water discharges

Abstract

Produced water generated during the production of oil and gas can contain high concentrations of radionuclides, organics and heavy metals. There are concerns about potential human health and ecological impacts from the discharge of these contaminants to the Gulf of Mexico. Data collected in the United States Department of Energy (USDOE) field study are being used in a series of human health and ecological risk assessments. These assessments will support scientifically-based regulation and risk management. This presentation: summarizes risk assessments performed for produced water discharges; describes how uncertainties in these assessments are guiding data collection efforts in the USDOE field study; and outlines ongoing risk assessment studies. In these studies, risk assessment is treated as an iterative process. An initial screening-level assessment is performed to identify important contaminants, transport and exposure pathways, and parameters. These intermediate results are used to guide data collection efforts and refinements to the analysis. At this stage in the analysis, risk is described in terms of probabilities; the uncertainties in each measured or modeled parameter are considered explicitly.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
70828
Report Number(s):
BNL-61736; CONF-9411228-1
ON: DE95012317
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH00016
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Conference: Minerals Management Service Information transfer meeting, New Orleans, LA (United States), 15-17 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 03 NATURAL GAS; 56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; OIL WELLS; WASTE WATER; NATURAL GAS WELLS; HEALTH HAZARDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; COASTAL REGIONS; LOUISIANA; GULF OF MEXICO; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; NUMERICAL DATA

Citation Formats

Meinhold, A F, Holtzman, S, DePhillips, M, and Hamilton, L D. USDOE study: Human health and ecological risk assessment for produced water discharges. United States: N. p., 1994. Web. doi:10.2172/70828.
Meinhold, A F, Holtzman, S, DePhillips, M, & Hamilton, L D. USDOE study: Human health and ecological risk assessment for produced water discharges. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/70828
Meinhold, A F, Holtzman, S, DePhillips, M, and Hamilton, L D. 1994. "USDOE study: Human health and ecological risk assessment for produced water discharges". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/70828. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/70828.
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title = {USDOE study: Human health and ecological risk assessment for produced water discharges},
author = {Meinhold, A F and Holtzman, S and DePhillips, M and Hamilton, L D},
abstractNote = {Produced water generated during the production of oil and gas can contain high concentrations of radionuclides, organics and heavy metals. There are concerns about potential human health and ecological impacts from the discharge of these contaminants to the Gulf of Mexico. Data collected in the United States Department of Energy (USDOE) field study are being used in a series of human health and ecological risk assessments. These assessments will support scientifically-based regulation and risk management. This presentation: summarizes risk assessments performed for produced water discharges; describes how uncertainties in these assessments are guiding data collection efforts in the USDOE field study; and outlines ongoing risk assessment studies. In these studies, risk assessment is treated as an iterative process. An initial screening-level assessment is performed to identify important contaminants, transport and exposure pathways, and parameters. These intermediate results are used to guide data collection efforts and refinements to the analysis. At this stage in the analysis, risk is described in terms of probabilities; the uncertainties in each measured or modeled parameter are considered explicitly.},
doi = {10.2172/70828},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/70828}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Sat Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1994}
}