ABSTRACT
One of the most difficult, and at the same time important, challenges in predicting and planning for the studies of long-term effects is to determine what industry activities will take place, where they will be located, when they will occur, and what will be their magnitudes. Information from a variety of industry sources was utilized in assembling the following predictive scenarios for future industry activity. As is evidenced by the in-depth discussions throughout this volume, determination of perturbations to the marine environment are difficult to detect in the environment, especially when little is known of the natural variability which often masks the more subtle long-term effects which may be associated with offshore oil and gas development.
