Assessing oil spill risk in the Chinese Bohai Sea: A case study for both ship and platform related oil spills

Many oil spill accidents have occurred in the Chinese Bohai Sea recently because of extensive offshore oil exploitation and maritime transportation. In this study we made an attempt towards the development of a probabilistic model assessing the oil spill risks for the Bohai Sea. We utilized satellite images together with historic accident data from 1973 to 2002 and information from literature to establish probability of oil spills, which was...