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Underwater noise from offshore oil production vessels

Author(s) -

Christine Erbe,

Robert D. McCauley,

Craig McPherson,

Alexander Gavrilov

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.4802183

Subject(s) - underwater , noise (video) , environmental science , submarine pipeline , marine engineering , broadband , acoustics , underwater acoustics , percentile , scale (ratio) , oceanography , geology , computer science , telecommunications , statistics , mathematics , geography , physics , engineering , cartography , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)

Underwater acoustic recordings of six Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessels moored off Western Australia are presented. Monopole source spectra were computed for use in environmental impact assessments of underwater noise. Given that operations on the FPSOs varied over the period of recording, and were sometimes unknown, the authors present a statistical approach to noise level estimation. No significant or consistent aspect dependence was found for the six FPSOs. Noise levels did not scale with FPSO size or power. The 5th, 50th (median), and 95th percentile source levels (broadband, 20 to 2500 Hz) were 188, 181, and 173 dB re 1 μPa @ 1 m, respectively.

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