Radioactive pollution at the oil fields of the Apsheron Peninsula, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/EPA Exploration and Production Environmental Conference 1997, EPEC 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Djahanguiri, F ^a   Reimer, G M ^a   Holub, R ^a   Aliev, C S ^b   Zolotovitskaya, T ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GROUNDWATER; LIME; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION; WELL EQUIPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS; INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; NATURALLY OCCURRING RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SURFACE AND GROUND WATERS;

OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT;

EID: 85126501970     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/38389-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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