| Do offshore
wells fight natural pollution?
Some oil and gas
wells may help clean up natural pollutants leaking from the seafloor off
the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.
References:
Hornafius, J.S.,
D. Quigley, and B.P. Luyendyk. 1999. The world’s most spectacular
marine hydrocarbon seeps (Coal Oil Point, Santa Barbara Channel,
California): Quantification of emissions. Journal of Geophysical
Research 104(Sept. 15):20,703.
Quigley, D.C.,
J.S. Hornafius, B.P. Luyendyk, et al. 1999. Decrease in natural
marine hydrocarbon seepage near Coal Oil Point, California, associated
with offshore oil production. Geology 27(November:)1047.
Further Readings:
Information on the
seeps project at the University of California is available at http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/seeps/.
The Web site for
the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District is http://www2.sbcapcd.org/.
Sources:
Bruce P.
Luyendyk
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Geological Sciences
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tom M. Murphy
Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
26 Castilian Drive, B-23
Goleta, CA 93117
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 21, November 20, 1999, p. 326. Copyright ©
1999, Science Service. |