Qatar has a ‘high vulnerability zone’ where a single oil spill would have dire global consequences.
A close-up of the desalination and liquid natural gas export infrastructures in Qatar. CREDIT: Thomas Anselain, Essam Heggy, Thomas Dobbelaere, & Emmanuel Hanert
According to the team, awareness of these vulnerability is imperative, especially since Qatar’s export capacity isover the next five years. Thus, this key port will continue to be a crucial hotspot in the global energy supply chain. An increased number of tanker incidents in the Gulf is also a concern, since these accidents could impact critical coastal infrastructure like the needed desalination plants.
To prevent the worst from happening, the study suggests increasing remote sensing in the Gulf’s most vulnerable areas with satellite and airborne images to increase warning times for spills and track how they evolve. The study argues that the current vulnerability to environmental hazards in the Middle East is largely underestimated. Threats to water resources due to climate change was listed as the biggest threat to the Arab countries in the most recent, a survey of 26,000 people in 12 countries conducted from October 2021 to July 2022.
“Global containment of major oil spills has always been challenging, but it is even harder in the shallow water of the Gulf where any intervention has to account for the complex circulation currents, a harsh operational environment, and the presence of highly-sensitive ecosystems on which three million humans rely for drinking water,” said co-author Essam Heggy from the University of Southern California Arid Climate and Water Research...
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