Oil and gas development in the Orenburg region of the Volga–Ural steppe zone: qualifying and quantifying disturbance regimes

Mjachina, Ksenya V.; Baynard, Chris W.; Chibilyev, Alexander A.

doi:10.1080/13504509.2013.867908

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“…Wang and Wang, 2015), and oil and gas (e.g. Mjachina et al, 2014) are becoming increasingly important. While land cover changes and habitat losses from energy development are not as large as those associated with mechanized agriculture and urbanization, the distributed nature of these developments (especially wind and oil and gas) fragment large landscapes and create considerable amounts of edge area between development and adjacent environments (e.g.…”

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Land cover changes associated with recent energy development in the Williston Basin; Northern Great Plains, USA

Preston

Kim

2016

Science of The Total Environment

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Land cover changes associated with recent energy development in the Williston Basin; Northern Great Plains, USA

Preston

Kim

2016

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Нефтегазодобыча является наиболее существенным фактором техногенного преобразования заволжско-уральских степей наряду с сельскохозяйственным освоением [6,7]. Современная российская степная зона в большинстве своем представлена ландшафтами, так или иначе измененными сельскохозяйственной деятельностью.…”

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The Transformation of the Steppe Landscapes and the Problems of Environmental Management in Conditions of Oil and Gas Production

Myachina¹,

Dubrovskaya²

2018

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Дубровская Светлана Александровна, кандидат географических наук, научный сотрудник отдела степеведения и природопользования, Институт степи УрО РАН, Оренбург, skaverina@ bk.ru Приводятся результаты анализа геоэкологического состояния степных ландшафтов нефтегазовых месторождений Волго-Уральской нефтегазоносной провинции. В качестве ключевых участков использовались полигоны площадью 100 км 2 каждый. Выполнена оцифровка площадок размещения объектов нефтегазопромыслов и дорожно-транспортной сети. Показано, что наиболее масштабными и распространенными являются нарушения почвенно-растительного покрова, происходящие в результате внедрения и функционирования площадных и линейных объектов инфраструктуры месторождений. Выявлено, что значительное количество объектов на участках исследования размещено в малопригодных с точки зрения ландшафтно-морфологических условий зонах. Распространенным нарушением, способным вызвать отдаленные критические последствия, также является размещение объектов вблизи водотоков. Ключевые слова: степная зона, нефтегазодобыча, трансформация ландшафтов, нарушенные земли, размещение объектов нефтегазопромыслов, рациональное природопользование.

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“…By minimizing the number of roads constructed and implementing newer technologies such as horizontal drilling, the surface footprint was reduced, leading to higher sustainability rankings compared to older neighboring oil blocks [21]. Similarly in western Russia, larger disturbance patterns related to energy development were linked to older oilfields, whereas newer fields with advanced technologies and modern regulations resulted in smaller disturbance footprints [22].…”

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“…Spatial data sets for this study included oilfields, oil wells, roads, county boundaries, parcels maps, Santa Rosa County land-use land-cover data, historical and current air photos, and satellite imagery collected from: the Florida Geological Survey (FGS [22] involves an accounting from above approach that relies on Earth observation data to develop "a set of quantifiable indicators to measure progress toward SD (sustainable development)" [41]. Here, infrastructure features viewed from above need to be collected, extended, completed and geoprocessed in order to visualize and quantify the necessary landscape disturbance metrics.…”

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A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Surface Disturbance Related to Oil and Gas Activities in West Florida, USA

Baynard¹,

Schupp²,

Zhang³

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Oil and gas exploration and production activities (OGEPA) can produce surface disturbances created by the construction of roads, well pads, oil wells, pipelines, production facilities and storage pits. These alterations can range from landscape conversion to transformation depending on location, regulations and enforcement, environmental best practices and state vs. multinational management. Though not known as a major oil and gas state, Florida is ranked 23rd in gas and 24th in oil production nationally. Jay oilfield, located in West Florida's panhandle region, is the largest and top producer in the state. Though production peaked in 1979, a nationwide upsurge is taking place that could affect Florida. The accounting from above approach proposed here is well suited to understand the role that the infrastructure surface footprint has on West Florida's landscape and how to monitor potential changes underway. It involves remote sensing, GIS techniques and landscape ecology metrics to quantify surface disturbance in Santa Rosa County's six oilfields and then ranks each field based on environmental performance (sustainability). Findings suggest that agricultural conversion is the leading driver of land-use and land-cover (LULC) change, while OGEPA have created small-scale surface alterations. This paper's approach can help oil companies, land managers and local government authorities understand the spatial extent of OGEPA onshore alterations and plan future scenarios, particularly as drilling and production increase in the current shale revolution occurring throughout the US, as well as expanded drilling planned for Florida.

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Oil and gas development in the Orenburg region of the Volga–Ural steppe zone: qualifying and quantifying disturbance regimes

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Land cover changes associated with recent energy development in the Williston Basin; Northern Great Plains, USA

Land cover changes associated with recent energy development in the Williston Basin; Northern Great Plains, USA

The Transformation of the Steppe Landscapes and the Problems of Environmental Management in Conditions of Oil and Gas Production

A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Surface Disturbance Related to Oil and Gas Activities in West Florida, USA

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