Acoustic Monitoring During Scotian Basin Exploration Project
March 2019 — Nova Scotia, Canada
Client: BP Canada Energy Group
An acoustic monitoring study during exploratory drilling on the Scotian Shelf with the mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) West Aquarius. Three recorders were deployed for 5 months to:
(1) Characterize how underwater sound levels vary with distance from the drilling activity,
(2) identify natural and other anthropogenic sound events that may have been present during this monitoring period, and
(3) compare the received sound levels with pre-operations model predictions.
