Impacts of the Kuwait Oil Fires on the Mount Qomolangma Region

Mt. Qomolangma (also known as Mt. Everest), the world’s highest mountain, is situated over the world’s highest plateau, the Tibetan Plateau. Because of its height and because of its distance from industrialized areas, the environmental state of the Mt. Qomolangma region can normally be considered “undisturbed”. It is interesting to investigate how this “undisturbed” state has been changing with time and whether it has been influenced by large environmentally disruptive events such as the Kuwait oil fires of 1990 and 1991 (Small, 1991). In order to do this, riv-er water samples were collected from the Rongpu River at Rongpu Temple Station in the summers of 1992 and 1993, as was done in 1975, and aerosol samples were collected in the summer of 1992 at the same station as was done in 1980. River water samples were analyzed using atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Aerosol samples were analyzed using proton-induced x-ray emission (PIXE) at the University of Fudan in Shanghai. The results show that the concentrations of chemical species in the river water at Rongpu Temple Station were much higher in the summer of 1992 than they were in 1975 and 1993, and the concentrations of atmospheric chemical species were much higher in 1992 than they were in 1980. The environment of the north slope of Mt. Qomolangma was therefore heavily polluted before and/or during the summer of 1992, possibly due to the Kuwait oil fires in 1990 and 1991.     

Natural and anthropogenic C2 to C6 hydrocarbons in the central-eastern Venezuelan atmosphere during the rainy season

The levels of low molecular weight hydrocarbons were measured at pristine sites and rural locations affected by hydrocarbon emissions from oil and gas producing fields in Venezuela. At the clean sites, lower concentrations of C₂ to C₆ alkanes were observed, whereas, in comparison with remotes sites, very much higher levels were measured at the polluted sites. Alkenes present relatively high concentrations, with isoprene being the most abundant, all over the study region. The main sources of alkenes are likely to be natural, mainly from vegetation. The levels of alkanes recorded at the clean sites and the alkene levels found everywhere in the region are in agreement with the values reported for other clean sites in the tropics. The increase of ozone production capacity due to the anthropogenic emissions of alkanes from oil and gas fields was estimated. Due to the presence in the atmosphere of important amounts of naturally emitted isoprene, ethene and propene, which makes a substantial contribution to the reactivity of the hydrocarbon mixture, a small increase (<5%) was estimated to occur in the capacity of the ozone production at a regional scale during the rainy season.     

THE RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE LONG-DISTANCE OILPIPELINE ENGINEERING

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Suspended sediment transport and deposition in a high arctic meromictic lake

A study of sedimentary processes and sediment yields in a high arctic meromictic lake (Lake C2, Taconite Inlet, Northern Ellesemere Island, Canada) was undertaken from May 1990 through August 1992 to understand the links between climatic controls, hydrology, and the laminated sediment record preserved in the lake. Understanding the relationships between processes and the sediment record is critical for interpreting the climatic significance of the laminated sediments in a region where high resolution climate proxy records are quite limited.Sediment transport to Lake C2 is dominated by fluvial processes. During the early part of the melt season slushflows transport sediment to the lake surface. Subsequently, suspended sediment is delivered to the lake by the main inlet stream and distributed lakeward by a plume emanating the main inlet channel. Due to the strong density stratification of the water column the plume distributes sediment downlake by overflows and interflows in the epilimnion. In general, overflows are generated by lower discharge events whereas interflows penetrate to the halocline during high discharge with increased suspended sediment concentration.Sediment trap analysis demonstrates that suspended sediment transport and deposition responds to diurnal through annual changes in stream discharge. Seasonal and annual sediment trap yields agree with average accumulation rates determined from varve thickness measurements and cumulative suspended sediment discharge from the main inlet stream indicating a close link between climatological, hydrological, and sedimentological controls and varve deposition.This is the fourth in a series of papers published in this issue on the Taconite Inlet Lakes Project. These papers were collected by Dr R. S. Bradley.     

激电法直接探测油气藏的有效性及提高其应用效果的途径

本文介绍了激电法直接探测油气藏的基本原理,对激电法直接探测油气藏的有效性进行了分析和评价,探讨和提出了提高其应用效果的途径。激电法直接探测油气藏是有效的,但也存在着某些局限性。为了提高其应用效果,笔者提出了如下建议:(1)要重视剩余电磁效应的测量;(2)要采用较大的装置;(3)应紧密结合地质资料对激电异常进行解释;(4)激电测量和资料解释应与找构造的物探方法和其它直接找油气的物化探方法相结合来进行。     

物化探多参数在小合隆地区找油气中的应用

对吉林省小合隆地区物化探找油工作的具体测量及采样是以剖面法进行的,在各点位上做了放射性伽玛能谱总计数率、铀、钍、钾及218Po的测量,同时取土壤样做了△C、吸附烃、发光沥青指标紫外、荧光的分析.通过对物化探多参数综合异常及构造图的分析,预测了有利勘探区,初步认为各异常显示可能反映深部含油气组合.     

Estimation of regionalized compositions: A comparison of three methods

A regionalized composition is a random vector function whose components are positive and sum to a constant at every point of the sampling region. Consequently, the components of a regionalized composition are necessarily spatially correlated. This spatial dependence—induced by the constant sum constraint—is a spurious spatial correlation and may lead to misinterpretations of statistical analyses. Furthermore, the cross-covariance matrices of the regionalized composition are singular, as is the coefficient matrix of the cokriging system of equations. Three methods of performing estimation or prediction of a regionalized composition at unsampled points are discussed: (1) the direct approach of estimating each variable separately; (2) the basis method, which is applicable only when a random function is available that can he regarded as the size of the regionalized composition under study; (3) the logratio approach, using the additive-log-ratio transformation proposed by J. Aitchison, which allows statistical analysis of compositional data. We present a brief theoretical review of these three methods and compare them using compositional data from the Lyons West Oil Field in Kansas (USA). It is shown that, although there are no important numerical differences, the direct approach leads to invalid results, whereas the basis method and the additive-log-ratio approach are comparable.     

广西百色盆地湖相有机质中单环烷烃分布特征及其地化意义浅析

笔者运用GC—MS方法,在广西百色盆地湖相暗色泥岩和原油的UNA组分中普遍检测到单环烷烃。经初步研究认为,此类化合物碳数组成与分布和典型海相有机质明显有别。同一样品中烷基环己烷、正构烷烃和一元正脂肪酸的碳数组成、分布的相似性为烷基环己烷源于脂肪酸提供了证据,因而此类化合物亦属生物标志化合物,是生源物输入和油源对比的潜在良好标志。     

油气地化指标得分和方法在油气化探异常评价中的应用

以我国华北某油区油气勘探为例,介绍了油气地球化学异常评价标志及依据,并利用这些评价标志——异常形态、异常组合、异常规模(N4P)、变异系数、构造圈闭等在油气地化异常评价中的作用,给出不同的分值,按评分标准对圈定的异常求出累积得分和,据此对油气化探异常所圈定的远景区进行排序,为进一步的油气勘查提供地球化学依据,并取得了较好的效果。