Centre for Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Research (COOGER)

Fisheries and Oceans Canada established the Centre for Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Research (COOGER) to coordinate the department’s nation-wide research into the environmental and oceanographic impacts of offshore petroleum exploration, production and transportation.

The Secretariat office of this national research centre, based at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, seeks to:

• Improve scientific knowledge,
• Identify priority research needs, and
• Coordinate and implement collaborative research efforts.

By building on existing regional expertise and infrastructure to coordinate research at a national scale, COOGER addresses the departmental mandate and industry need by providing scientific knowledge for use to ensure safe and environmentally sound management of offshore oil and gas operations.

COOGER strives to improve the quality of science and minimize research duplication by fostering collaborations with other government research agencies, universities and industry. COOGER research findings will be available for use by external partners as well as Fisheries and Oceans Canada resource managers.

COOGER also fosters collaboration at the international level. COOGER aims to learn from past experiences of other key countries to optimize the progress of Canadian research programs. It is recognized within COOGER that there is vast potential to conduct comprehensive, large-scale research projects to address global concerns through the sharing of expertise and resources in an international setting.

Links:

• Global Responder (2006)
• New Technology to Improve Oil Spill Response (August 2004)
• Strengthened Environmental Protection
• Leadership in Technology Transfer (August 2004)
• New Wave Technology Will Help Improve Response to Oil Spills at Sea  (August 2004)
• Newsletter – COOGER Update, Issue 2 PDF Version | Text Version (August 2004)
• Newsletter – COOGER Update, Issue 1 PDF Version | Text Version (March 2004)
• News Release – BIO Hosts Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Effects Monitoring Workshop (May 28, 2003)
• News Release – Scientists Study Offshore Seismic Exploration (April 25, 2003)
• News Release – National Centre for Offshore Oil and Gas Environmental Research Established at Bedford Institute of Oceanography (November 21, 2002)