Abstract: Environmental protection in connection with oil pollution

GILDEEVA IRINA M

Oil and oil products take one of the priority places in environmental pollution. No other pollutants, as if they were dangerous, excluding the products of atomic nucleus division, may be compared with oil and oil products on occurrence scales, pollution source amount and influence degree to all the components of natural system.

The evaluation of pollution scales shows that every year the land surface is contaminated by about 30 million tons of oil, that is equivalent to loss of one large oil field.

Fight with oil pollution demands the development of functioning system of measures on environmental protection. This system includes oil-ecologic monitoring, averting oil pollution, and cleaning contaminated territory (restoration of natural systems).

The detailed characteristic of each measure indicated above is given.

Analysis of toxicity of the harmful substances entering the atmosphere during oil refining is given.

The classification of oil and gas fields on the degree of danger to environment and toxicity influence to nature is offered. The construction of new type maps - maps of prognosis of ecological danger (risk) during the development of oil and gas fields is recommended on the basis of this classification.

In this report, among the measures on environmental protection, particular attention is given to the technology of production and refining of high-viscous, high-sulfur (including metal-bearing) oils, which was developed in VNIGRI (St. Petersburg, Russia) by V.V. Gribkov, M.D.Belonin, and D.M.Soskind.

The particular attention is also given to the description of new method of soil cleaning from oil and oil products, on the whole, basing on the application of NAPHTOX biopreparations. This method was offered by the Russian specialists (M.D. Belonin, E.A.Rogozina, R.M.Svechina, and others, 1994).

In conclusion, it is indicated that success in environmental protection may be reached only under condition of using all of the complex environmental protection measures.

AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90942©1997 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, Vienna, Austria