Addressing Uncertainty in Oil and Natural Gas Industry Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Industry has recognized that with the emergence of mandatory reporting programs and economic instruments that rely on precise knowledge of GHG emissions (and emission reductions) there is a growing focus on improving the quality of emission estimations. To meet this need, industry developed guidance entitled: “Addressing Uncertainty in Oil & Gas Industry GHG Inventories: Technical Considerations and Calculation Methods”. This is a collaborative effort among API, it’s global affiliate IPIECA[1], and it’s European counterpart CONCAWE[2]. Addressing uncertainty for GHG emission estimates complements the API GHG Methodology Compendium (API Compendium)released in August 2009. It is being released as a ‘Pilot-Test’ version for one-year, to be followed by an updated version in 2010. The document provides the needed background information and details on measurement uncertainty and statistical calculation methods that are relevant for the industry, but could be used by other sectors as part of their GHG inventory development. You are invited to visit this link to download the document:
Size: 1.48 MB | Date: September 2009 | License: Free
API Tools for Estimating GHG Emissions
Accurate estimation of greenhouse gas emissions is indispensable to responsibly addressing climate change. Through API, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry has provided a suite of tools for estimating emissions. It includes API's updated 2009 compendium of emissions estimation methodologies,
software for emissions estimation and inventorying, and
guidelines (created by the international petroleum organization IPIECA) to assist in the accounting and reporting of emissions.
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Compendium of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Methodologies for the Oil and Gas Industry.
Size: 8 MB | Date: August 2009 | License: Free
ETR 86 Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction
Jane Van Ryan speaks with Thomas Tanton, president of T² and Associates, about the results of a study he conducted, commissioned by API, on greenhouse gas emission reduction and technologies.
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Oil and gas industry leads investments to cut greenhouse gases
U.S.-based oil and natural gas companies invested $58.4 billion from 2000 through 2008 in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study by T² and Associates and the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas. This was more than was invested by either the federal government or by all other U.S.-based private industries combined. It was 44 percent of the total invested by all U.S.-based private industry and the federal government.
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California Climate Action RegistryAPI gave presentations on its extensive work on greenhouse gas emissions estimation and reporting at the Annual Meeting of the California Climate Action Registry in San Diego on April 1, 2009.
A study by ICF International, Addendum to Impact Assessment of Mandatory GHG Control Legislation, indicates that climate legislation pending in Congress could significantly reduce clean-burning natural gas production and send refining production and jobs overseas.
API recently completed a Summary of Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO2EOR) Injection Well Technology. This important Background Report identifies the technologies and operating practices that have been developed by the oil and gas industry for injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). These technologies and practices have been developed specifically for use in CO2 EOR; however, the oil and gas industry's experiences and learning may be of value in considering the injection of carbon dioxide for the purpose of geologic storage.
IPIECA and API have produced two new sets of guidelines for oil and natural gas companies. The first provides information to help companies evaluate options for reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and registering project-level GHG emission reductions. The second set of guidelines provides information on carbon capture and storage projects. In both cases the guidance focuses on the technical aspects of reducing GHG emissions separate from policy considerations. (Part III on reducing natural gas flaring will be available April/May 2009.)
The Promise of Energy with Lower CO2 Emissions is API's new brochure which explains in easy-to-understand language how carbon capture and storage (CCS) can help play an important role in reducing greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
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Climate Challenge: A Progress Report
API has issued a new report that documents progress achieved by the U.S. oil and natural gas industry addressing the climate change issue. The report discusses the industry's efforts to increase energy efficiency (highlighting recent progress improving refinery energy efficiency, a principal industry goal), promote alternative energy, establish tools for estimating and tracking emissions, and help develop new energy technologies for eliminating or sequestering emissions.
Size: 1.6 MB | Date: December 2005 | License: Free
Companies Address Climate ChangeThis updates Climate Change: A Progress Report above, showing additional, often more recent actions U.S. oil and natural gas companies are taking to address the problem of climate change.
API Voluntary Climate Challenge Program
Through its leading trade association, the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry has established a program to build on its previous work addressing climate change. The program is a positive response to the President’s challenge to American industry to reduce the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while keeping the economy growing.
America's Energy Savers
Energy Efficiency is a core value. It’s also a daily practice of America’s oil and natural gas industry. Energy efficiency helps companies manage costs, strengthening their competitiveness and bringing more affordable energy products to consumers. America is vastly more energy-efficient today than a generation ago. The U.S. oil and natural gas industry is striving to do its part to build on that progress.
Size: 3 MB | Date: November 24, 2008 | License: Free
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