Newfoundland Orphan Basin Exploration Drilling Program Environmental Impact Statement
September 2018 — Newfoundland, Canada
Clients: Stantec, BP Canada Energy Group
Appendix C – Underwater Sound Assessment for Newfoundland Orphan Basin Exploration Drilling Program
An acoustic assessment as part of the Environmental Impact Statement for proposed exploration drilling in Orphan Basin. JASCO’s assessment reviews existing assessments of similar projects in the area, estimates sound source spectra for the planned activities based on previous studies, describes the acoustic environment and transmission loss and compares them to assessments of two previous drilling projects, and describes ambient sound levels and the various soundscape contributors from previously measured data.
