Passive Acoustic Technique for Detecting, Locating, and Characterizing Hydrocarbon Leakages

Description: As offshore deepwater oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico continues to grow and expand, the risk of underwater oil spills resulting from both natural events and human accidents also increases. Real-time monitoring could help provide early detection of spills that is critical for minimizing impact. Existing monitoring techniques have significant limitations and cannot achieve real-time monitoring. This project launches an effort to develop a functional real-time monitoring system that uses acoustic technologies to detect, locate, and characterize undersea hydrocarbon leakages over large areas in a cost-effective manner.

Funding Cycle: Safer Offshore Energy Systems 3
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Acoustic detection for undersea oil leaks: Bubble sound characterization and modeling dataset

A laboratory study to simulate hydrocarbon leakages and their induced sound

Passive acoustic technology to detect, locate, and characterize undersea hydrocarbon leaks

Acoustic detection for undersea oil leaks project: programs and algorithms dataset

Videos of a laboratory study to simulate hydrocarbon leakages and their induced sound