Comments on: Australia is at forefront of biofouling issue, but this environmental challenge may soon go global /australia-is-at-forefront-of-biofouling-issue-but-this-environmental-challenge-may-soon-go-global-1706 Get the latest oil drilling news with 三昇体育 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:40:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: ‘Biofouling’ is tip of green iceberg  | 三昇体育 /australia-is-at-forefront-of-biofouling-issue-but-this-environmental-challenge-may-soon-go-global-1706#comment-14 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:23:43 +0000 http://briancparks.com/drillingcontractor/?p=1706#comment-14 […] “Biofouline” is the latest environmental hobgoblin impacting global industries and the world, but it is just the tip of the green iceberg. Biofouling is the introduction of non-native species into a new environment. This usually has a happy ending – but only for the immigrants, who quickly settle into their new, predator-free habitats. From a shipping or mobile rig standpoint, unwanted critters stow away for trans-oceanic voyages in ballast or bilge water (including inside pipes), by clinging to hulls or rig legs, anchor chains, or within internal compartments. (See DC, July/August 2008.) […]

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