Produced Water 2 pp 177-194 | Cite as
Delineation of Benthic Impact and Recovery at Two Produced Water Discharge Sites in Inshore Louisiana
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Untreated produced water or oil field brine has for many years been discharged into the estuarine environments of inshore Louisiana. Contaminants contained in these wastewaters include petroleum hydrocarbons, organic acids, heavy metals, radionuclides, treating chemicals and salts (Stevenson, 1992). The relative amount of each of these constituents varies with the formation. Most of the inshore Louisiana discharges are relatively low volume with only 10% of them reported to exceed 5,000 bb1/day (794,850 L/day) (Boesch and Rabalais, 1989).
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