The article shows that the solution of the problem of boron removal from gray water and contaminate systems is the use of complex water purification from boron compounds. This complex includes a combination of several methods. The use of individual methods does not allow achieving the normative indicators for boron. The proposed technology will allow us to create industrial equipment for local cleaning from boron at enterprises of the oil and gas complex.

The article considers the problem-analytical approach to recycling of drilling taking into account the main parameters of the selection system. Indicated the need for an individual approach, the selection of technologies to solve the problem comprehensively, taking into account component composition, physico-chemical properties, the amount of generated waste. Proposed organizational and technical solutions that minimize environmental fees and the costs of processing drilling waste. These solutions apply to councils the adoption of administrative decisions.

The possibility of using sugar cane pulp is analyzed. The process of obtaining a sorbent material by carbonization of sugar cane pulp was studied. Laboratory tests were conducted to study the sorption properties of carbonized sugar cane waste on individual hydrocarbons.

Biological diagnostics of soil plays a significant role in its quality assessment. The most common indicators of the biological state of the soil are: the number of microorganisms in the soil, the "breathing" of the soil, enzymatic activity (catalase activity, invertase, urease, phosphatase and other enzymes), the intensity of accumulation of free amino acids, the rate of decomposition of urea, the content of phosphorus, humus, carbohydrates, qualitative composition of humus, phytotoxicity of soil, pH, Eh. In order to determine the majority of these indicators, it is necessary to prepare the water extract from the soil. However, the results of the experimental determination of the toxicity of various soil samples according to the wormenchytraeid reaction have shown that this method of preparing a soil sample for analysis is not always effective and often does not allow obtaining reliable results. In particular, the survival rate of worms-enchytraeids, determined in a solid sample of oil-polluted soil, had a lower value than the same index, but determined in the water extract from this soil.

The main tasks of the combined version of hydrogeological and ecological monitoring of the geological environment are considered. Information products of the forecast-analytical assessment of the spread of pollution beyond the sludge accumulators of industrial enterprises are shown. The practical possibilities of integrated geoinformation technology, realizing the possibilities of mathematical situational cartographic modeling of pollutant migration, are presented.

The problem of produced water treatment and utilization became relevant in the middle of the XIX century when oil and gas industry gained momentum as the most important world energy branch. Today, there is still the necessity for treatment of produced water large volumes. Release to the environment this wastewater type can lead to soil degradation, groundwater and surface water contamination, ecosystem dysfunction in oil and gas bearing regions. The requirements for the treated produced water quality are determined by the way of produced water utilization. The current produced water treatment technologies are characterized by variety, possibility of flexible different approaches combination in order to achieve the maximum treatment efficiency.

A very large number of operations with methanol in gas industry one supplies determine the potential risk of derailing the entire delivery and possible accident and, consequently, bottling of methanol and pollution Wednesday while numerous operations on Plum-methanol loading increases the risk of pollution and poisoning Wednesday attendants. Designed by biopreparat metanolodestruktor "BIOM-М" and researches of improving its operational performance at the expense of making Glycerin in composition and its use in sea water, salted ground.

The formation of facilities for the placement of industrial slime wastes leads to the degradation and exclusion of great territories from economic circulation. Conducting restoration works and further targeted development of these territories involves the use of natural materials, which leads to their appreciation. The way out of this situation is the use of alternative sources of raw materials. This article presents the main stages of the assessment of disturbed territories, taking into account their resource, geoecological and technological features for further recovery using materials based on large-tonnage slurry waste.

The problem of noise effect of a city boiler house on a residential area is considered. Experimentally determined sound levels in the territory of the settlement, in the near and far field of the power equipment of the enterprise. Experienced by installing the main sources of noise from the composition of boiler equipment, their characteristics. A reliable method for determining these sources was the comparison of the spectral characteristics of vibrational and acoustic signals obtained experimentally. With the help of the software complex AWM "Acoustics" an acoustic map of the study area was simulated. As a source data, a terrain map and experimental values of the sound level at the designated control points were used. The acoustic model was used to evaluate the effectiveness of various options for technical solutions that could be implemented to provide the required noise level in a residential area. A set of measures is proposed that allows to significantly reduce the influence of the boiler house on the environment.

Ways are presented to protect water objects during emergency oil spills on underwater transitions of oil pipelines both stationary and mobile type, as well as a device for collecting oil under the ice surface. Their technical description and operation principle are given. The advantage of stationary devices mounted over the underwater transition of oil pipelines is their year-round availability. Mobile devices are designed for rapid response in case of an emergency oil leak. The method of determining the oil capacity of water-saturated sorbents based on the example of the polymeric material of the "Ecosorb" brand allows us to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed technical devices based on it under conditions close to real. It has been established that the sorbent's oil capacity does not depend on the duration of its residence in the aquatic environment.

The article examines the main trends and forecasts of urbanization in the contemporary world. At the center of the authors' interests is Moscow — the largest urban agglomeration in Russia with its social and environmental problems. Based on the latest statistical data, the current particularities of the Moscow agglomeration growth and its dynamics (both territorial and population) are analyzed. In addition, using foreign experience, an attempt is made to predict the future of Russian capital’s residents in conditions of further hypertrophied growth. Paying attention to the positive aspects of urbanization, researchers express concern about its negative consequences, such as environmental problems and, as a result, worsening health among the population, congestion contributing to the rapid spread of diseases, lack of the necessary social infrastructure, the development of which does not keep up with the city's development, the growth of crime, ethno cultural conflicts, problems of social inequality and social tension, asymmetric urban settlement, etc. Based on foreign experience in the development of world megalopolises, the authors highlight and describe three blocks of problems that give rise to the process of hypertrophied growth of urban spaces: social inequality, ecology and deterioration of public health; the growth of migration flows and the ghettoization of urban areas. The article concludes that there is a need for a balanced assessment of the main risks and benefits standing behind the rapid growth of the metropolitan agglomeration and the mandatory regulation of this process in the Russian Federation.

This paper considers risks associated with oil production and transportation in the World Ocean. The international cooperation experience in the sphere of oil spill prevention and liquidation is analyzed in details. The conclusion was made about the insufficiency of oil spill risk response methods. The environmental impact of emergency oil spills is investigated in the article.

Analysis of RF settlement improvement state with regard to water supply facilities and water disposal systems as well as objects with waste disposal in the unsewered areas has been carried out. It has been found that legal control of such waste treatment in RF is performed by more than twenty laws and other regulatory legal acts of the federal and regional level. It has been noted that modern environmental and health legislation does not have “liquid wastes” phrase. It has been stated that in most cases regulations for liquid wastes treatment approved in some municipal formations mean domestic wastewater treatment. Necessity of distinguishing “domestic wastewater” and “wastewater” phrases has been discussed. Authors have firstly developed uniform “Rules for treatment liquid wastes and domestic wastewaters” by the example of RF subject. Uniform rules can form areal plans of refuse disposal, water disposal plans, and waste treatment by the different municipal formations. This article is intended for the regional and local authorities, investors in the field of refuse disposal.