Assessment of geomorphology and geologic hazards in the Parks Highway-Minto Flats-Dalton Highway infrastructure corridor: Cook Inlet to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Wildlife and oil: a survey of critical issues in Alaska

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247400061453 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 15 (97) ◽

pp. 479-494 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robert B. Weeden ◽

David R. Klein

Keyword(s):

Modern Technology ◽

Petroleum Exploration ◽

The Arctic ◽

Public Concern ◽

Cook Inlet ◽

Critical Issues ◽

Prudhoe Bay ◽

Working Out ◽

By Products ◽

Commercial Oil

The world's oil magnates have recently turned their eyes to Siberia, Alaska, Arctic Canada, and the Chukchi and North seas and have invested huge sums in exploration for petroleum in lands scarcely touched by modern technology a decade ago.Throughout the Arctic, serious questions have arisen regarding environmental and cultural by-products of petroleum exploration and development. Perhaps nowhere has there been greater public concern than in Alaska, which has experienced commercial oil production since 1958 near Cook Inlet and which is now working out plans for development of the Prudhoe Bay pool.

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A REEXAMINATION OF OCCURRENCE RATES FOR ACCIDENTAL OIL SPILLS ON THE U.S. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF

International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings ◽

10.7901/2169-3358-1983-1-355 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 1983 (1) ◽

pp. 355-359 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kenneth J. Lanfear ◽

David E. Amstutz

Keyword(s):

Continental Shelf ◽

Oil Spill ◽

Oil Spills ◽

Outer Continental Shelf ◽

Cook Inlet ◽

The Public ◽

Exposure Variable ◽

Accident Data ◽

Prudhoe Bay ◽

The U.S

ABSTRACT The Department of the Interior is required to evaluate the risks of oil spills from outer continental shelf (OCS) oil leasing and must compare these risks to those of other oil sources, such as importing oil. Past practice has been to treat spill occurrence as a Poisson process, with a rate proportional to the amount of oil produced or transported. U.S. oil production and accident data and worldwide tanker data were used. Criticism of this approach has centered on the validity of using oil volume as an exposure variable, and the applicability of existing accident data to frontier OCS areas. To examine these questions, the Interior Department recently sponsored several studies on OCS oil spill occurrence rates. One study compiled an extensive listing of all known oil spills of recent years and is believed to be the most complete database on oil spills available to the public. Another study looked at trends in oil spills from U.S. OCS platforms and discovered a statistically significant decrease in the spill rate since 1974. Other studies examined oil spill data for Cook Inlet and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and found that spill rates for these areas could not be shown to be significantly different from the U.S. OCS platform spill rate based on trend analysis. Studies are continuing to ensure that oil spill rates used by the Interior Department reflect the latest data and analyses.

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