... avoidance mara identification information continental shelf seafloor Introduction Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, LLC is a 50:50 partnership between Shell New Energies US LLC and EDF Renewables North America. Its Lease Area, identified as OCS-A 0499, is located in federal waters, approximately...

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... Abstract The northwestern Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf includes approximately 38,660,700 acres of submerged land under federal permitting authority, which are in turn subject to NEPA and NHPA Section 106-compliant archaeological survey. Of those nearly 40 million acres, sea-level...

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... mitigation measures for submerged archaeological sites. Over the last decade, resource managers along Pacific Coast regions have become increasingly aware of the need for submerged archaeological site protection. This is especially important since the eastern Pacific continental shelf has become a focal...

... CRM projects on the Atlantic outer continental shelf (OCS) and in the Gulf of Mexico have expanded our understanding of principles and methods for mapping and evaluating submerged pre-contact period archaeological sites. Basically, there are two distinct kinds of submerged cultural resources...

... Abstract Late Pleistocene and early Holocene landscapes exposed during the last glaciation have since been inundated by rising sea levels, resulting in their submergence and often subsequent burial by sediment accretion. On the outer continental shelf (OCS) in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico...

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... Continental shelf Continental slope Abyssal plain A typical deepwater pipeline is either transporting oil or gas onshore from a deepwater frontier field or transferring oil or gas from one continent to another, connecting the source to the market via the shortest route (commonly crossing an abyssal plain...

..., alised areas n the shelf 12 OTC 23138 between the islands and mainland. The rate of delivery of tidal kinetic energy, or energy flux, is also referred to as tidal (kinetic) power. Tidal (kinetic) power is also greatest on the northern half of the Australian continental shelf, with many areas having more...

... identify sites. This paper will discuss both primary and ancillary geophysical data sets used in the identification of historic resources on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf and introduce environmental data sets and observations from diver investigations that are used to further refine data...

... Abstract Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) is responsible for leasing renewable energy activities on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Included among these activities are offshore data collection devices, wind...

..., the Environmental Studies Program (ESP) was developed to support the oil and gas leasing program administered by the US Department of the Interior (DOI). The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) of 1953 as amended, authorized the program and established its goals, while the National Environmental Policy Act...

... to the platforms has led to the development of interim guidance for the 2006 and 2007 hurricane seasons (API 2006) and an amendment to API RP 2SK (API 2008). North Sea The regulation of offshore safety in UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) is the role of Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Department of Energy...

... development with the short history from the first discovery of the Cod field in 1969. The Norwegian continental shelf consists of three main petroleum provinces; the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. Total petroleum production So far, the Norwegian petroleum's history has to a large extent...

... subsea technology continental shelf Copyright 2006, Offshore Technology Conference This paper was prepared for presentation at the 2006 Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 1 4 May 2006. This paper was selected for presentation by an OTC Program Committee following review...

... of such operations in worsening weather conditions. The paper outlines progress and gives example results from a number of research themes aimed at improving the safety of helicopter operations on the UK continental shelf. The themes include ways of minimising the risk posed by the aerodynamic hazards...

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