LIST OF TABLES 



1. MMS Environmental Studies Program for the Gulf of Mexico: Funding by Study 



Series, 1973 to July 1989. 16 



2. Effects on the marine environment which may occur as a result of the 



development of an offshore oil and gas field. 24 



3. Fates and Effects Studies in the Gulf of Mexico supported and administered 

 by the Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico Region, Environmental 



Studies Program. 25 



4. Potential long-term environmental effects of offshore oil and gas development 



activities. 26 



5. Permitted discharges and effluents associated with offshore oil development. 65 



6. Ingredients of water-based drilling muds. 65 



7. Continental shelf meiofauna densities. 68 



8. Santa Barbara hydrocarbon seep microbes and meiofauna parameters means by 



year and station. 70 



9. Studies with soft-bottom benthic component. 90 



