CONTAMINANT STATUS OF THE NOTH SEA (1524 KB) The main contaminants associated with the oil and gas industry in the North Sea come from produced water and drill cuttings.
Contamination of Water and Sediments (837 kb) This report describes work commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to prepare an inventory of contamination of water and sediments metadata for the
Strategic Environmental Assessment area 8 (SEA8) in terms of data type, location, quality and availability.
Could a software failure lead to an oil spill at sea? (1,19 MB) This may be fine when the only consequence is a loss of data,
ut could a system failure lead to a serious marine incident
eading to an oil spill. To date we have been fortunate but do
ncreasing incident trends suggest that a problem may be round the corner?