- Dumping from an offshore platform., Directorate North Sea.
Pollution from the offshore industry
Mining at sea used to polluted the sea environment in many ways: from discharging production water and drilling mud and cuttings, noise pollution, emitting waste materials in the air, nightly illumination of the platforms and producing lightly radioactive waste. Strict regulations in past decades have led to the introduction of many environmental rules in the offshore industry, which combat these forms of pollution.
