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PART TWO
OAPEC Activities in 2012
CHAPTER TWO
GENERAL SECRETARIAT
I: Studies, Papers and Reports
OAPEC General Secretariat has implemented its annual program
for 2012, including completion of technical and economic studies and
research papers relevant to petroleum industries. The General Secretariat
has also completed its 2012 proposed program seminars and workshops.
These activities are reviewed as follows:
1.1 Well Blow Out: Environmental Impact
The study highlights the causes of well blow out, and the impact of oil
and other well fluids on the environment. The study defines the various
types of blowouts, providing a historical background, causes, and places
of occurrence. The study discusses the environmental effects resulting
from blowouts and the downstream physiochemical purging processes. It
has been noticed that despite their immediate intensity of environmental
effects, the environment possesses the mechanism of returning back to
normal within a period of time depending on the place of occurrence.
The study is divided into four chapters;
Chapter 1
defines blowouts,
causes and places of occurrence.
Chapter 2
addresses the effects arising
from the spread of the different fluids to the surrounding environment,
including oil and gas, underground water, drilling liquids, and chemicals
used in drilling and production. This chapter tackles the impact of
hydrocarbons on humans and life in general, in water and on the ground.
Chapter 3
reviews several case studies exhibiting the effects of blowouts,
including environmental effects of Macond Well blow out that occurred
in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012.
Chapter 4
studies the effects of spilled oil
containment and treatment operations.
