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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">In the context of E&P, environment is a subsection of [[HSE|HSE]] that focuses on&nbsp;the effects E&P has on the external environment. Typically,the discipline deals with those effect that occurs outside the E&P footprint. Included are the effects of air emissions, waste water discharges, and disposal of waste.</span>
<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">In the context of E&P, environment is a subsection of [[HSE|HSE]] that focuses on&nbsp;the effects E&P has on the external environment. Typically,the discipline deals with those effects that occur&nbsp;outside the E&P footprint. Included are the effects of air emissions, waste water discharges, and disposal of waste.</span>


== Air emissions ==
== Air emissions ==


=== Methane emissions ===
=== <br/><br/>Methane emissions ===


=== Carbon emissions ===
=== Carbon emissions ===
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== Remediation and land reclamation ==
== Remediation and land reclamation ==
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After an area of land is used for petroleum production, that land must be returned to a condition as close to its original state as possible. That can prove difficult because incidents like saline or oil spills can cause soil contamination that takes time and effort to repair.&nbsp;
 
The incorrect remediation of&nbsp;oil and gas field wastes can, at the very least, cause tension between the land owner and the production operator. Unsatisfactory remediation could also&nbsp; lead to legal conflicts, wasting natural and capital resources. Fortunately, agricultural techniques are available by which most hydrocarbon releases and adverse environmental impacts can be corrected.
 
Traditional&nbsp;hydrocarbon&nbsp;[TPH] remediation methods include biotreating, composting, dilution, dilution burial, road spreading, reuseable resource technology,&nbsp;and ultra-violet ray treatment. This paper discusses land treatment and dilution only, because of the authors' desire to provide an in-depth presentation.&nbsp;
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Revision as of 16:01, 18 August 2015

In the context of E&P, environment is a subsection of HSE that focuses on the effects E&P has on the external environment. Typically,the discipline deals with those effects that occur outside the E&P footprint. Included are the effects of air emissions, waste water discharges, and disposal of waste.

Air emissions



Methane emissions

Carbon emissions

Reducing air emissions

Water use, produced water discharge and disposal

Waste management

Naturally ocurring radioactive materials

Oil and chemical spills

Remediation and land reclamation

After an area of land is used for petroleum production, that land must be returned to a condition as close to its original state as possible. That can prove difficult because incidents like saline or oil spills can cause soil contamination that takes time and effort to repair. 

The incorrect remediation of oil and gas field wastes can, at the very least, cause tension between the land owner and the production operator. Unsatisfactory remediation could also  lead to legal conflicts, wasting natural and capital resources. Fortunately, agricultural techniques are available by which most hydrocarbon releases and adverse environmental impacts can be corrected.

Traditional hydrocarbon [TPH] remediation methods include biotreating, composting, dilution, dilution burial, road spreading, reuseable resource technology, and ultra-violet ray treatment. This paper discusses land treatment and dilution only, because of the authors' desire to provide an in-depth presentation.