Good Practices for the Sound Management of Oil Field Discharges Through the Application of the ISO14001, 9001, 45000, and 50000 Management Systems

While burning fossil fuels continues to drive climate change, offshore oil and gas production fields also pose an imminent threat to marine ecosystems and coastal communities through oil spill pollution. Spilled oil contaminates the coastlines where people live, spoils the seafood they harvest, poisons the air they breathe, and endangers desalination water sites and Marine Protected Areas. Following the ISO-compliant approach, the possible consequences of oil spills from the offshore Leviathan Field platform were assessed using mathematical modeling the oil transport at sea and in the lower atmosphere. The results presented the spatio-temporal distributions of oil concentration at the sea surface, along coastlines, and the fraction dispersed in the water column. Robust virtual spill statistics 2015–2018 facilitated the examination of seasonal differences. Arrival time distributions reveal which sites are most likely to be affected first in the event of a future oil spill. Pathways of toxic oil clouds evaporated from the sea surface were tracked with air quality modeling in the lower atmosphere. The results can enhance the response strategy and direct the exploitation of offshore oil and gas production fields toward risk reduction and eco-friendliness.