Evaluation of Drilling Cutting Components and Their Impact on the Environment Using Bioassay (Siberia, Russia)

Abstract

To meet the demands for oil and gas production, the number of oil and gas wells is increasing every year, construction of drilling sites is growing and, as a consequence, the amount of drilling wastes continues to grow too. The article is concerned with consideration of hazards from produced chemicals for different environments as industrial anthropogenic sources based on drilling cuttings (DC) from Tomsk Oblast oil fields (Siberia, Tomsk) as an example. The rock-forming minerals in all samples are quartz, albite, and Muscovite. Bioassay results of DC from research oil field showed the biological effect on the test culture.