Water column monitoring near oil installations in the North Sea 2001-2004

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 414-429

  Hylland, Ketil ^a,b   Tollefsen, Knut Erik ^a   Ruus, Anders ^a   Jonsson, Grete ^c   Sundt, Rolf C ^c   Sanni, Steinar ^c   Røe Utvik, Toril Inga ^d   Johnsen, Ståle ^d   Nilssen, Ingunn ^d   Pinturier, Laurence ^e   Balk, Lennart ^f   Baršiene, Janina ^g   Marigòmez, Ionan ^h   Feist, Stephen W ⁱ   Børseth, Jan Fredrik ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c IRIS and Akvamiljø ^*  (Norway)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

^e TOTAL   (France)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

ⁱ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic cod; Biomarkers; Blue mussels; Caging; Monitoring; Produced water

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENTS; FISHERIES; METABOLITES;

GAS PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION;

MARINE POLLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

BIOMARKER; BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GADOID; GAS PLATFORM; GAS PRODUCTION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WATER COLUMN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE VARIABLE; FOOD INDUSTRY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TISSUE; WASTE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INDUSTRY; MYTILUS EDULIS; NORTH SEA; OILS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

GADUS MORHUA; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 40849089289     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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