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Geographic Characteristics of the Black-Caspian Seas Region

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Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 51))

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Existing and planned oil and gas pipelines cross or should cross the Caspian and Black Seas, the Caucasus, Mountains in Turkey and Iran, the Karakum Desert, and numerous rivers. Analysis of natural factors causing emergency situations becomes the key issue in assessment of environmental risks. In the Caspian Sea, such natural factors include storms, ice conditions in the Northern Caspian, sea level change, surges, extreme waves, coastal zone flooding, and hazardous geological and geomorphological conditions, such as earthquakes, gas saturated zones, etc. In the Black Sea, these are big depths, hydrosulfide layer deeper than 100 m, unstable sediments on the continental slope and earthquakes. Mountains in Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Russia represent natural barriers for construction and exploitation of pipelines. This chapter briefly reviews main geographic characteristics in the Black-Caspian Seas Region which impede construction of land and offshore oil and gas pipelines.

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Acknowledgments

The present research has been supported by the Russian Science Foundation under the Project N 14-50-00095. The research has been partially done in the framework of collaboration with Dr. Marilaure Grégoire from the Interfacultary Center for Marine Research (MARE) and Modelling for Aquatic Systems (MAST), University of Liège, Belgium.

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  1. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 36, Nakhimovsky Pr., Moscow, 117997, Russia

    Andrey G. Kostianoy & Evgeniia A. Kostianaia

  2. S.Yu. Witte Moscow University, 12, Build. 1, 2nd Kozhukhovsky Proezd, Moscow, 115432, Russia

    Andrey G. Kostianoy & Igor S. Zonn

  3. Interfacultary Center for Marine Research (MARE) and Modelling for Aquatic Systems (MAST), University of Liège, B5a Sart-Tilman, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Andrey G. Kostianoy

  4. Engineering Research Production Center for Water Management, Land Reclamation and Ecology “Soyuzvodproject”, 43/1, Baumanskaya Street, Moscow, 105005, Russia

    Igor S. Zonn

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Kostianoy, A.G., Zonn, I.S., Kostianaia, E.A. (2016). Geographic Characteristics of the Black-Caspian Seas Region. In: Zhiltsov, S., Zonn, I., Kostianoy, A. (eds) Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2016_462

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