Accounting for Socioeconomic Change from Offshore Oil and Gas: Cumulative Effects on Louisiana's coastal Parishes, 1969-2000 (open access)

Accounting for Socioeconomic Change from Offshore Oil and Gas: Cumulative Effects on Louisiana's coastal Parishes, 1969-2000

This study looks at the socioeconomic impact in Louisiana's coastal parishes as a result of off shore oil and gas. The study looks at the impact of reserves under federal jurisdiction on the income of people in the region.
Date: 2006
Creator: Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastewaters on Phytoplankton Primary Productivity in the Red River, Louisiana (open access)

The Effects of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastewaters on Phytoplankton Primary Productivity in the Red River, Louisiana

Responses of phytoplankton productivity in the Red River to unbleached pulp and paper mill wastewaters were monitored using in situ ^14C incubation. Preoperational studies, conducted prior to the discharge of mill wastewaters varied seasonally, but revealed similar productivity trends when compared with postoperational studies, conducted after mill discharges began entering the Red River. Carbon assimilation rates measured downstream of mill discharge were generally greater than upstream levels in both preoperational and postoperational studies. Selected physical, chemical, and biological parameters varied seasonally, but showed similar upstream-downstream values and preoperational-postoperational values. Total Organic Carbon (TOC), Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC), and Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD_5) were positively correlated with postoperational productivity rates. Apparent color was negatively correlated with productivity rates.
Date: May 1984
Creator: Holler, Jeffrey Dee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
West Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve site brine-disposal monitoring, Year I report. Volume 4. Bibliography and supporting data for physical oceanography (open access)

West Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve site brine-disposal monitoring, Year I report. Volume 4. Bibliography and supporting data for physical oceanography

This project centers around the Strategic Petroleum Site (SPR) known as the West Hackberry salt dome which is located in southwestern Louisiana and which is designed to store 241 million barrels of crude oil. Oil storage caverns are formed by injecting water into salt deposits, and pumping out the resulting brine. Studies described in this report were designed as follow-on studies to three months of pre-discharge characterization work, and include data collected during the first year of brine leaching operations. The objectives were to: (1) characterize the environment in terms of physical, chemical and biological attributes; (2) determine if significant adverse changes in ecosystem productivity and stability of the biological community are occurring as a result of brine discharge; and (3) determine the magnitude of any change observed. Volume IV contains the following: bibliography; appendices for supporting data for physical oceanography, and summary of the physical oceanography along the western Louisiana coast.
Date: February 1983
Creator: DeRouen, L. R.; Hann, R. W.; Casserly, D. M.; Giammona, C. & Lascara, V. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1993 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1993

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 1993.
Date: May 1994
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Analysis of the Participant Selection Process Under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act: Texas and Louisiana (open access)

An Analysis of the Participant Selection Process Under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act: Texas and Louisiana

Federal guidelines required prime sponsors under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, or CETA, to serve the "significant segments" of the eligible population. This study analyzes whether prime sponsors in Texas and Louisiana correctly identified and served those segments. This study finds that eligible ethnic groups were properly identified and were served equitably; age and gender distinctions, however, were inadequately observed in the providing of services.
Date: May 1988
Creator: Drake, William D. (William Daniel), 1950-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fate and Effects of Barium and Radium-Rich Fluid Emissions of Hydrocarbon Seeps on the Benthic Habitats of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Louisiana (open access)

Fate and Effects of Barium and Radium-Rich Fluid Emissions of Hydrocarbon Seeps on the Benthic Habitats of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Louisiana

An analysis of how barium and radium-laced fluid seeps affect the climate and habitats of the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Aharon, Paul; Gent, Dan Van; Fu, Baoshun & Scott, L. Max
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changing Patterns of Ownership and Control in the Petroleum Industry: Implications for the Market for Oil and Gas Leases in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Changing Patterns of Ownership and Control in the Petroleum Industry: Implications for the Market for Oil and Gas Leases in the Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the changing patterns of ownership and control in the petroleum industry.
Date: October 2003
Creator: Pulsipher, Allan G.; Iledare, Omowumi O. & Mesyanzhinov, Dmitry V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
West Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve site brine disposal monitoring, Year I report. Volume 5 Supporting data for estuarine hydrology, discharge plume analysis, chemical oceanography, biological oceanography, and data management. Final report (open access)

West Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve site brine disposal monitoring, Year I report. Volume 5 Supporting data for estuarine hydrology, discharge plume analysis, chemical oceanography, biological oceanography, and data management. Final report

This project centers around the Strategic Petroleum Site (SPR) known as the West Hackberry salt dome which located in southwestern Louisiana, and which is designed to store 241 million barrels of crude oil. Oil storage caverns are formed by injecting water into salt deposits, and pumping out the resulting brine. Studies described in this report were designed as follow-on studies to three months of pre-discharge characterization work, and include data collected during the first year of brine leaching operations. The objectives were to: (1) characterize the environment in terms of physical, chemical and biological attributes; (2) determine if significant adverse changes in ecosystem productivity and stability of the biological community are occurring as a result of brine discharge; and (3) determine the magnitude of any change observed. Volume V contains appendices for the following: supporting data for estuarine hydrology and hydrography; supporting data analysis of discharge plume; supporting data for water and sediment chemistry; CTD/DO and pH profiles during biological monitoring; supporting data for nekton; and supporting data for data management.
Date: February 1983
Creator: DeRouen, L. R.; Hann, R. W.; Casserly, D. M.; Giammona, C. & Lascara, V. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gulf of Mexico Fish and Fisheries: Bringing Together New and Recent Research (open access)

Gulf of Mexico Fish and Fisheries: Bringing Together New and Recent Research

This report is about bringing together new and recent research.
Date: October 2000
Creator: McKay, Melanie; Nides, Judith & Vigil, Debra
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical Reconstruction of the Contaminant Loading and Biological Responses in the Central Gulf of Mexico Shelf Sediments (open access)

Historical Reconstruction of the Contaminant Loading and Biological Responses in the Central Gulf of Mexico Shelf Sediments

This report is about the reconstruction of he contaminant loading and biological responses in the central Gulf of Mexico shelf sediments.
Date: October 2003
Creator: Turner, R. Eugene; Overton, Edward B.; Rabalais, Nancy N. & Sen Gupta, Barun K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Census and Statistical Characterization of Soil and Water Quality at Abandoned and Other Centralized and Commercial Drilling-Fluid Disposal Sites in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas (open access)

Census and Statistical Characterization of Soil and Water Quality at Abandoned and Other Centralized and Commercial Drilling-Fluid Disposal Sites in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas

Commercial and centralized drilling-fluid disposal (CCDD) sites receive a portion of spent drilling fluids for disposal from oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) operations. Many older and some abandoned sites may have operated under less stringent regulations than are currently enforced. This study provides a census, compilation, and summary of information on active, inactive, and abandoned CCDD sites in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, intended as a basis for supporting State-funded assessment and remediation of abandoned sites. Closure of abandoned CCDD sites is within the jurisdiction of State regulatory agencies. Sources of data used in this study on abandoned CCDD sites mainly are permit files at State regulatory agencies. Active and inactive sites were included because data on abandoned sites are sparse. Onsite reserve pits at individual wells for disposal of spent drilling fluid are not part of this study. Of 287 CCDD sites in the four States for which we compiled data, 34 had been abandoned whereas 54 were active and 199 were inactive as of January 2002. Most were disposal-pit facilities; five percent were land treatment facilities. A typical disposal-pit facility has fewer than 3 disposal pits or cells, which have a median size of approximately …
Date: June 1, 2003
Creator: Dutton, Alan R. & Nance, H. Seay
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1992 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 1992

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1992.
Date: May 1993
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2011 (open access)

Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2011

Annual report for the Sabine River Compact Administration for 2011, including a summary of the meetings and work of the administration, reports from the hydrologic stations, fiscal revenues and expenditures, and accompanying notes.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Sabine River Compact Administration
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2013 (open access)

Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2013

Annual report of the Sabine River Compact Administration describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2013. Includes a copy of the text of the original Sabine River Compact and the bylaws of the administration.
Date: 2013
Creator: Sabine River Compact Administration
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
West Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve site brine-disposal monitoring, Year I report. Volume 2. Physical and chemical oceanography. Final report (open access)

West Hackberry Strategic Petroleum Reserve site brine-disposal monitoring, Year I report. Volume 2. Physical and chemical oceanography. Final report

This project centers around the Strategic Petroleum Site (SPR) known as the West Hackberry salt dome which is located in southwestern Louisiana, and which is designed to store 241 million barrels of crude oil. Oil storage caverns are formed by injecting water into salt deposits, and pumping out the resulting brine. Studies described in this report were designed as follow-on studies to three months of pre-discharge characterization work, and include data collected during the first year of brine leaching operations. The objectives were to: (1) characterize the environment in terms of physical, chemical and biological attributes; (2) determine if significant adverse changes in ecosystem productivity and stability of the biological community are occurring as a result of brine discharge; and (3) determine the magnitude of any change observed. Contents of Volume II include: introduction; physical oceanography; estuarine hydrology and hydrography; analysis of discharge plume; and water and sediment quality.
Date: February 1983
Creator: DeRouen, L. R.; Hann, R. W.; Casserly, D. M.; Giammona, C. & Lascara, V. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retrogressive Failures in Sand Deposits of the Mississippi River, Report 1: Field Investigations, Laboratory Studies and Analysis of the Hypothesized Failure Mechanism (open access)

Retrogressive Failures in Sand Deposits of the Mississippi River, Report 1: Field Investigations, Laboratory Studies and Analysis of the Hypothesized Failure Mechanism

First report regarding geotechnical field investigations meant to apply current state-of-the-art knowledge and methods to assessing the in situ characteristics of susceptible point bar deposits below Baton Rouge.
Date: June 1988
Creator: Torrey, Victor H., III; Dunbar, Joseph B. & Peterson, Richard W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2007 (open access)

Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2007

Annual report for the Sabine River Compact Administration for 2007, including a summary of the meetings and work of the administration, reports from the hydrologic stations, fiscal revenues and expenditures, and accompanying notes.
Date: 2007-23~
Creator: Sabine River Compact Administration
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2002 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2002

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing the approved budgets, audits, and rules and regulations during fiscal year 2002.
Date: June 2003
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2012 (open access)

Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2012

Annual report of the Sabine River Compact Administration including an independent auditor's report, the management's discussion and annalysis, financial statements, and other documentation on compliance, audits, and various findings.
Date: 2012
Creator: Sabine River Compact Commission (Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2010 (open access)

Sabine River Compact Administration Annual Report: 2010

Annual report for the Sabine River Compact Administration for 2010, including a summary of the meetings and work of the administration, reports from the hydrologic stations, fiscal revenues and expenditures, and accompanying notes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Sabine River Compact Administration
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Importance of Zooplankton in the Diets of Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) Near Offshore Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Importance of Zooplankton in the Diets of Blue Runner (Caranx crysos) Near Offshore Petroleum Platforms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the importance of Zooplankton in the diet of the blue runner.
Date: July 2003
Creator: Keenan, Sean F. & Benfield, Mark C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry (open access)

Labor Migration and the Deepwater Oil Industry

This report is about how local residents respond to the presence of immigrants, in the ways in which migrants supply their labor and employers demand it, and in how migrants socially and economically incorporate into their receiving communities.
Date: July 2004
Creator: Donato, Katherine M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uranium in the Southern United States (open access)

Uranium in the Southern United States

From introduction: In this study on raw material sources of uranium the Southern Interstate Nuclear Board has catalogued all known occurrences of uranium and some references to thorium in a 17-state area (P1. 1). These occurrences have been evaluated as potential sources of uranium by the State Geological Surveys and the consultant group of SINB. Favorability guides have been applied to the known occurrences and recommendations have been made for future action by the states involved, federal agencies, or by industry. State recommendations are included in state-by-state summaries. The state reports were written either by personnel of the State Geological Surveys or were abstracted from State geological survey data by members of the consultant group...The purpose of this study was to compile information on and systematically assess uranium and other radioactive occurrences in the region. The SINB undertook the project because of its statutory, interstate capability as an extension of government in each of the 17 states, an arrangement that lends itself effectively to this cooperative undertaking.
Date: November 1970
Creator: Southern Interstate Nuclear Board
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2000 (open access)

Report of the Red River Compact Commission: 2000

Report of the Red River Compact Commission describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2000.
Date: September 2001
Creator: Red River Compact Commission (U.S.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History