The state of environmental protection of natural environment from negative processes has become an integral part of sustainable mining. The analytical review shows the ways of geoinformation system’s preparing a to ensure environmental safety during oil mining process on protected areas. Obtainment information for geoinformation database is based on technologies of aerial remote sensing, experimental modeling of biotic reactions to the impact of technogenic factors by biotesting methods. The geoinformation system should perform observations, assessments, search and regulatory forecasts, based on digital technologies, and develop individual measures for the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. Environmental stresses are usually caused by halogenesis, bitumization, air pollution and mechanogenesis. The use of geoinformation systems to collect information about the state of the natural environment is an essential feature of sustainable mining. Multispectral and panchromatic aerial photography by unmanned aerial vehicle has been successfully used to assess pollution, land degradation, and the effectiveness of land restoration. It is important to develop an unmanned aerial sensing technique for areas, where oil fields and protected are located. Biotesting of the consequences of technogenic transformation of ecosystem components is significantly related to the choice of optimal test objects for conducting experiments. Soil contamination with oil and its processed products affects the condition of all components: plants, microorganisms. It is advisable to develop a methodology for determining the patterns and levels of impact of residual oil and technogenic brines on local natural objects, local soil and water ecosystems based on the results of biotesting. Development of regulations for standard measures for remediation of ecosystems at different levels of pollution, during bitumization, halogenesis of land and water objects. The review shows that there are technological possibilities for creating GIS for monitoring the quality of the natural environment and environmental safety in the areas of oil fields. Digital maps of soils, watersheds, natural and technical systems, the development of technogenic processes and measures to restore the natural environment, allow to provide spatial modeling of natural and technogenic processes. Environmental quality management during oil mining process remains an important goal of geoecological researches.
<p>Oil production in karst areas often leads to negative consequences for ecosystems, including aquatic ones, since karst creates favorable conditions for the migration of oil mining pollution.</p><p>The study area is located in the oil and gas bearing zone of the Western Urals, the territory is assigned to the area of gypsum and carbonate-gypsum karst. The site (river basin) of one of the old-developed fields of the Perm Region was studied, which is characterized by a large number of oil mining infrastructure facilities.</p><p>The purpose of this study is to identify the features of technogenic transformation of ecosystems in karst conditions. For this, a field survey of the territory, sampling of surface and underground waters, grounds, bottom sediments and soils, measurements of the concentrations of pollutants in the air, the presence of the main ecological and trophic groups of microorganisms in water samples were carried out.</p><p>The process of hydrocarbons input (bitumization) covered karst cavities, springs, streams of the study area. In time, the concentration of hydrocarbons increased during periods of high water. Spatially, the hydrocarbon content gradually decreased from the polluted springs in the direction of the river mouth.</p><p>The increased content of hydrocarbons in bottom sediments (up to 54,872 mg/kg) was observed at almost all sample plots.</p><p>Areas with a tendency to accumulation of hydrocarbons were identified within the boundaries of the study area (soil pollution near the well cluster in the upper part of the river basin exceeds 100,000 mg/kg). Bottom sediments and soils are a deposit medium for pollutants, they can become secondary sources of pollution.</p><p>Microorganisms are an integral part of ecosystems, which serve as indicators of pollution. Quantitative changes in the group of heterotrophic and oil-oxidizing microorganisms of the spring microbocenosis are multidirectional. An increase in the number of heterotrophs and a decrease in the number of oil-oxidizing microorganisms are observed.</p><p>Technogenic salinization during oil production is an accumulation of salts (chlorides, sulfates, carbonates), which are contained in large quantities in high-mineralized stratal waters extracted along the way. The maximum values of chloride concentrations were recorded in the upper part of the river basin.</p><p>The karst region is composed of sulfate rocks, which have greater solubility compared to carbonate rocks, we believe that this primarily explains the high content of sulfate ion in water samples.</p><p>The increased salinity of the aquatic environment can be judged by the presence of halophilic microorganisms. At the points where halophilic organisms were detected, chloride concentrations exceeding background values were recorded. It should be noted that the number of halophiles is low.</p><p>Excess concentrations of benzene, hexane, toluene, hydrogen sulfide, and methane were recorded in the atmospheric air at certain points.</p><p>The transformation of ecosystems in the study area has a pronounced degradation orientation. Hydrocarbons make the greatest contribution to environmental pollution, and the presence of karst forms only aggravates the situation.</p><p>Measures to localize pollution and organizational recommendations to improve the environmental situation were proposed for each problem area.</p><p>&#160;</p><p><em>The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and Perm Territory, project number 20-45-596018.</em></p>
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