A new paper by employees of Laboratory 12 has been published

06.01.2015 / New publications

For the first time in the international offshore practice the employees of the Institute offered a solution one of the actual problems of the Caspian region, associated with differentiation of internal and external environmental impacts of the Contract Area.

In the journal "Current World Environment" (Thomson ISI) published article of the head of laboratory number 12 Karayev R. A. and employees of laboratory Sadikhova N.Yu. and Imamverdiyeva X.F. Title of the article "Knowledge-Based System for Environmental Monitoring of Contract Areas in the Caspian Sea". The article proposes statement and method of solving the problem of differentiation of anthropogenic impact of the operator of Contract Area and extraneous influences caused by external pollution sources.
External sources can be: the neighboring oil and gas development, municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes, mud volcanoes, dumping. The problem is extremely urgent in connection with the collapse of the USSR, large scale increase of oil and gas extraction on the Caspian shelf, closed regime of the Caspian Sea, the complex geopolitical situation in the region. Problem has no analogues in the world offshore practice.