Abstract
Produced water, defined as water present with oil or gas in ground formations and brought to the surface, forming a number of oil lakes of varying sizes, has been gathered and analyzed using a variety of satellite image interpretation techniques acquired between 1972 and 2018, aided by GIS techniques. This method provides a high-level overview of the characteristics and extent of produced water lakes, which can now be utilized to perform further in-depth research in the future to enhance the extent and volume of even more oil damage assessment. The main target of this project was to produce high maps of oil-contaminated surfaces as well as series time maps of events induced by oil pollution via multi-temporal satellite data and then to validate the results. The amount of produced water lakes or any oil residues are displayed as black dots spread over the studied area for the year 2018 utilizing satellite images that were identified and digitized as a polygon shape to measure the wet and polluted dry area. This study revealed that the region grew in size due to the growth in the amount of water produced and the amount of oil (volume) produced as the oil and gas fields matured. On the other hand, the amount of contaminated soil in the same areas was calculated, and it can be treated, or its constituent pollutants removed and utilized for other purposes.
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The author would like to thank the Management of LPI for their unlimited support, encouragement, conducting and bringing this task to an end. The author expresses his sincere gratitude to Dr. Salem El Jawashi and Muftah Treban who contributed to the chemical and geotechnical test and the staff at Environment Department of LPI for maintaining and preparing test equipment for this study.
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Khalifa Abdunaser: Conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, writing-original draft, visualization, Data Interpretation, review and editing. The author has read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
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Abdunaser, K. (2022). Oil Pollution Monitoring and Detection Using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study from Libya. In: Zurqani, H.A. (eds) Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS in Libya. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97810-5_11
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