The literature search and analysis of causal factors in the Arctic and other regions include oil spills of 50 bbls or more at different facility types associated with offshore oil and gas operations. This report is intended to inform future fault tree analysis of oil spills of 50 bbls or more related to offshore exploration and development activities on the US Arctic OCS. The analysis considers oil spill causal factors in the GOM and PAC OCS as well as factors in Arctic regions within and outside of the US.
This report assumes any analysis conducted using this literature review will be specific to the US Arctic region. The literature review may identify information that related to the Arctic region or Polar regions outside of the US; however, if the information is not also relevant or applicable to the US Arctic, then it is considered outside the scope of this project.