Gulf of Mexico continental slope study annual report, year 2. Volume 1. Executive summary. [Sampling for hydrocarbons]

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5269951

This report summarizes the data management and scientific analyses accomplished during the first two years of a multiyear joint LGL Ecological Research Associates/Texas AandM University study of the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico, which was initiated in 1983 by the Gulf of Mexico Regional Office of Minerals Management Service (MMS). The study when completed will be based upon five cruises. The original delineation of objectives established for the project was compatible with the environmental responsibility of MMS to control, in the Gulf of Mexico, the development of hydrocarbons in time and space within the geographic purview of the Regional Office. To do this, the Service would have to gain knowledge of what biological and other valuable resources are present on the slope and thus are vulnerable to inevitable impacts of petroleum development.

• Research Organization: LGL Ecological Research Associates, Inc., Bryan, TX (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5269951
• Report Number(s): PB-88-168844/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also Volume 2, PB--88-168851; Also available in set of 3 reports PC E99, PB--88-168836
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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03 NATURAL GAS
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CONTINENTAL SLOPE
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OFFSHORE DRILLING
BENTHOS
ECOLOGY
HYDROCARBONS
POPULATIONS
WATER POLLUTION
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
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CONTINENTAL MARGIN
DRILLING
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MINERAL RESOURCES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
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SEAS
SURFACE WATERS
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