The U.S. Approved Oil Survey Plan in Atlantic Ocean
Posted: 07/25/2014 01:07:12 Edited: 07/25/2014 01:07:12 Clicks: 847
The U.S. has approved oil survey plan of oil corporations in Atlantic Ocean recently. However, BOEM (US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management) stressed that the government had not authorized in anywhere yet. Oil corporations still need to apply for license in locality before survey.
In fact, BOEM set out oil survey plan in Atlantic Ocean and requested for safeguards adopted by oil corporations before survey in February this year.
Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM said,” We will adopt rational measures to implement safeguards without affecting oil survey.” He said that applications of several oil corporations for oil survey were still being audited. Surveys will be carried out in the early of 2015.
Environmental protection organizations were against oil survey plan. They claimed that the plan did not provide measures to ensure the security of marine fishes and marine mammals which may result more exploitation of oil and gas.
At present, compressed air gun is mainly used to explode seabed during geological survey. Signals of acoustic impulse caused by air gun are spread back from geological structure of the bowels of the earth. Scouts utilize the signals to decide the location of oil and gas. Environmentalists are worried about that underwater explosion of air gun will cause catastrophic consequences to marine organisms. Claire Douglass, the principal of marine environmental movement says,” Using compressed air gun is the first step to expand contaminative dangerous offshore oil development to Atlantic Ocean.
In 2008, the United States Congress abolished the prohibition of oil development in Atlantic Ocean having been carried for decades. Obama canceled the plan to rent the shore of Virginia after Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. Currently, Obama starts to set out new five-year lease schedule of offshore oil and gas from 2017 to 2022.
BOEM shows that the authorization of geological surveys does not mean that oil in Atlantic Ocean is brought into new five-year lease schedule.
In fact, BOEM set out oil survey plan in Atlantic Ocean and requested for safeguards adopted by oil corporations before survey in February this year.
Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM said,” We will adopt rational measures to implement safeguards without affecting oil survey.” He said that applications of several oil corporations for oil survey were still being audited. Surveys will be carried out in the early of 2015.
Environmental protection organizations were against oil survey plan. They claimed that the plan did not provide measures to ensure the security of marine fishes and marine mammals which may result more exploitation of oil and gas.
At present, compressed air gun is mainly used to explode seabed during geological survey. Signals of acoustic impulse caused by air gun are spread back from geological structure of the bowels of the earth. Scouts utilize the signals to decide the location of oil and gas. Environmentalists are worried about that underwater explosion of air gun will cause catastrophic consequences to marine organisms. Claire Douglass, the principal of marine environmental movement says,” Using compressed air gun is the first step to expand contaminative dangerous offshore oil development to Atlantic Ocean.
In 2008, the United States Congress abolished the prohibition of oil development in Atlantic Ocean having been carried for decades. Obama canceled the plan to rent the shore of Virginia after Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. Currently, Obama starts to set out new five-year lease schedule of offshore oil and gas from 2017 to 2022.
BOEM shows that the authorization of geological surveys does not mean that oil in Atlantic Ocean is brought into new five-year lease schedule.
