The definitive guide to fossil fuel spills and leaks, covering technologies, prevention, spill responses, and cleanup
Oil Spill and Gas Leak Emergency Response and Prevention highlights the complex nature of fossil fuel extraction methods, the unintended consequences when disasters occur, spill behavior, and environmental impact mitigation. The book gives equal treatment to both oil spills and gas leaks.
Recent environmental disasters, including the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, have focused the environmental, regulatory, and legal community on the need for safe and efficient fossil fuel extraction procedures. This very practical book will serve as the go-to guide for engineers, oil and gas producers, geologists, regulators, environmental consultants, and lawyers aiming to prevent such catastrophes and to deal with their after-effects when they occur.
This detailed guide focuses equally on oil and gas drilling, spills, leaks, and their effects from several perspectives: engineering techniques; long-term biological and environmental impacts; dealing with insurance claims, litigation, and legislation in overlapping jurisdictions; and much more.
Oil Spill and Gas Leak Emergency Response and Prevention
- Addresses the entire disaster relief effort
- Discusses environmental impacts ranging from biological effects to groundwater contamination
- Explains how to deal with aged oil and water wells
- Includes details on risk analysis for oil and natural gas fields
- Covers hydrofracking and groundwater contamination
- Contains global site examples from California, Alaska, the U.S. Gulf Coast, Kuwait, France, Peru, Ecuador, and other locations
- Provides interviews with lawyers and remediation professionals
- Includes the most current ideas on best practices for case closure
About the Author
Stephen Testa is executive officer of the California State Mining and Geology Board and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in geology. He has written more than 125 articles in the field of geology and environmental science, and has published 11 books. Testa is an expert on hydrocarbon recovery, resource recovery, and reuse and recycling of soils, sediments, and wastes. He is the past president of both the American Institute of Professional Geologists and the American Geological Institute and is president-elect of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Energy Mineral Division.
James Jacobs is chief hydrogeologist at Environmental Bio-Systems, Inc., and has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in geology. He won three Fulbright grants in environmental engineering. Jacobs also worked in oil fields in Alaska and California for close to a decade before working for two decades in the environmental assessment and remediation field.
