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Oil pollution of the anabranches of the Ob river on the territory of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra

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An analysis is made of the oil pollution of the Ob river waters using a long-term (1993–2013) hydrochemical monitoring of oil fields in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Contents of oil hydrocarbons (OHC) were determined in 4277 samples from the main Ob channel, and in 7076 samples from its anabranches by using infrared spectrometry. An increase in MAC (0.05 mg/dm3) was observed in 28% of the samples from the main channel, and in 32% from the anabranches. The total percentage of samples with an extremely high (> 50 MAC) and high (30–50 MAC) pollution level made up 0.3% of the samples for the anabranches, and 0.1% for the main channel. Maximum pollution was revealed in the eastern part of Okrug, from its eastern boundary to the mouth of the Trom’egan river which is associated with a considerable number of accidents on the pipelines within the Nizhnevartovskii district. The upper and lower quantiles in the most polluted anabranches, Pasl and Bagras, are 0.03–01.7 and 0.032–0.16 mg/dm3, respectively, whereas in the main Ob channel they vary from 0.022 to 0.065 mg/dm3 (0.4–1.2 MAC). The methods of geoinformatics and mathematical statistics were used to assess a dependence of OHC on the number of pollution sources (well clusters, and the area of oil spills) in zones at different distances from the river channels. By calculating the Spearman correlation coefficients, it was shown that OHC contents are dependent mainly on the number of wells, and on the area of oil spills located at less than 2 km from the channels.

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  1. Institute of Problems of Development of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia

    D. V. Moskovchenko

  2. Institute of Geoinformation Systems, Tyumen, Russia

    A. G. Babushkin

  3. Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

    D. V. Moskovchenko

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Original Russian Text © D.V. Moskovchenko, A.G. Babushkin, 2017, published in Geografiya i Prirodnye Resursy, 2017, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 46-55.

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Moskovchenko, D.V., Babushkin, A.G. Oil pollution of the anabranches of the Ob river on the territory of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra. Geogr. Nat. Resour. 38, 238–245 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372817030040

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