Ensure Your Oil & Gas Operations Meet Environmental Compliance Standards

Oil plays a crucial role in the modern world. However, its extraction necessitates vigilant monitoring of environmental impacts, such as oil spills and leaks from both active and closed offshore wells. This monitoring is essential for understanding long-term changes and developing effective remediation methods. Sea-Bird Scientific specializes in manufacturing oil detection sensors and CTD systems, which can be deployed and integrated into oil spill monitoring systems. For decades, customers have relied on Sea-Bird Scientific to provide accurate, usable data. We take pride in the fact that our instruments have set industry standards that our customers depend on, and we strive every day to raise the bar even higher.

Oil Detection Systems

Sea-Bird Scientific’s SeaOWL UV-A^TM is an in-situ oil-in-water sensor. Based-on the highly successful Sea-Bird Scientific ECO sensor, the SeaOWL UV-A^TM is an industry-leading oil-detection technology with 5X optical resolution improvement over its predecessor. A variation of the SeaOWL, the SeaOWL UV-A^TM SLC, is specifically designed for integration into the Teledyne Webb Research Slocom glider.

The all-new ECO V2 Fluorometer offers an impressive dynamic range, seamlessly transitioning from the deep blue ocean to coastal waters, all while delivering 16-bit resolution and enhanced signal-to-noise ratios across up to four channels. ECOs can be used to detect oil plumes and were used during the Deepwater Horizon spill to detect plumes in the Gulf. The ECO V2 Series offers a multitude of variations and configurations of components to maximize the quality and outcomes of your research. A flexible yet precise sensor package can cover the full range of natural waters, allowing for easier and more reliable research, decision making, and predictions. The ECO V2 can be deployed independently or can be integrated within other platforms, including glider systems to garner a host of measurement parameters.

CTD Systems

Sea-Bird CTD systems are ideally suited for this monitoring work, as the oil will not cause long-term damage to the CTD. Note that if the oil coats the inside of the conductivity cell and dissolved oxygen sensor membrane, it can possibly affect the sensor’s calibration (and thus affect the measurement and the data).

A large number of Sea-Bird instruments/equipment are suitable for integration with biogeochemical sensors:

• Profiling CTDs
• Moored/Time Series CTDs

Case Studies:

• Identifying Oil In Water With The Seaowl UV-A™ Fluorescence and Backscattering Instrument

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