Pesca Pubblicazione scientifica Regional Environmental Impact Assessments FILONE TECNOLOGICO TEMA produzione e cattura RIASSUNTO AbstractThe Petroleum Act from 1985 established the requirements for preparing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) for both the exploration and operation phase of the petroleum activity on the Norwegian shelf The EIAs prepared separately for each new development project has received increasing criticism from environmental and fishery authorities, especially because of insufficient evaluation of the combined environmental effects caused by the total oil and gas activities in an area.A revision of the Petroleum Act in July 1997 established the legal basis for requiring Regional EIAs (REIA). The first REIA according to the new requirements is now being finalized. The new system shows a number of important benefits compared to the former system and gives a much better basis for evaluating the total environmental and socio-economic effects in an area. To be able to meet the increasing demands for better cause & effect descriptions of environmental impacts, some of the latest developments in quantitative methods have been used to predict regional impacts from emissions to air and discharges to waterThe preliminary results of the REIA for the Haltenbanken area show small estimated environmental impacts despite the large activity in the area. This may at first sight seem surprising, but seen on a regional level, the emissions and discharges are relatively low compared to background levels. Another reason for this is that all the installations are quite new or still under construction, and that they have been constructed to meet stringent environmental standards. DATA Data di pubblicazione: 04/04/2013 AUTORI FURUHOLT EDGAR KINN SIGURD JUEL ENTE DI AFFERENZA STATOIL RIVISTA SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, 7-10 June, Caracas, Venezuela