[HTML][HTML] Autonomous marine environmental monitoring: Application in decommissioned oil fields

DOB Jones, AR Gates, VAI Huvenne, AB Phillips… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Hundreds of Oil & Gas Industry structures in the marine environment are
approaching decommissioning. In most areas decommissioning operations will need to be …

Assessing wave energy effects on biodiversity: the Wave Hub experience

MJ Witt, EV Sheehan, S Bearhop… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Marine renewable energy installations harnessing energy from wind, wave and tidal
resources are likely to become a large part of the future energy mix worldwide. The potential …

Environmental benefits of leaving offshore infrastructure in the ocean

AM Fowler, AM Jørgensen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The removal of thousands of structures associated with oil and gas development from the
world's oceans is well underway, yet the environmental impacts of this decommissioning …

[HTML][HTML] To what extent can decommissioning options for marine artificial structures move us toward environmental targets?

AM Knights, AJ Lemasson, LB Firth, N Beaumont… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy is key to international energy transition
efforts and the move toward net zero. For many nations, this requires decommissioning of …

[HTML][HTML] Marine mammals trace anthropogenic structures at sea

DJF Russell, SMJM Brasseur, D Thompson, GD Hastie… - Current Biology, 2014 - cell.com
On land, species from all trophic levels have adapted to fill vacant niches in environments
heavily modified by humans (eg [1]). In the marine environment, ocean infrastructure has led …

Offshore decommissioning horizon scan: Research priorities to support decision-making activities for oil and gas infrastructure

SM Watson, DL McLean, BJ Balcom… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thousands of oil and gas structures have been installed in the world's oceans over the past
70 years to meet the population's reliance on hydrocarbons. Over the last decade, there has …

Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and wind farms: a case study in the Dutch North Sea

M Scheidat, J Tougaard, S Brasseur… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid increase in development of offshore wind energy in European waters has raised
concern for the possible environmental impacts of wind farms. We studied whether harbour …

Enhancing the scientific value of industry remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in our oceans

DL McLean, MJG Parsons, AR Gates… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are used extensively by the offshore oil and gas and
renewables industries for inspection, maintenance, and repair of their infrastructure. With …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of pile driving sound on local movement of free-ranging Atlantic cod in the Belgian North Sea

I van der Knaap, H Slabbekoorn, T Moens… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Offshore energy acquisition through the construction of wind farms is rapidly becoming one
of the major sources of green energy all over the world. The construction of offshore wind …

Passive acoustic monitoring of the decline of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita

A Jaramillo‐Legorreta… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is the world's most endangered marine mammal with
approximately 245 individuals remaining in 2008. This species of porpoise is endemic to the …