H33I:
Existing and Legacy Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Characterization, Mitigation, and Management II Posters

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Session ID#: 13296

Session Description:
Existing and legacy oil and gas infrastructure includes wells, pipelines, tanks, and underground storage fields, which have been linked to greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., methane), water contamination, and air pollution.  The characterization, mitigation, and management of existing and legacy infrastructure that can be found across the U.S. and abroad remain a challenge that requires a multi-disciplinary approach.  We invite a broad range of studies including field studies (e.g., flux measurements, gas and water geochemical sampling, mobile surveys, and geophysics), laboratory analyses such as measurement technique refinement, fluid, contaminant, and geomechanical modeling, risk assessment, economic analysis, and database analyses including historical, commercial, and public databases and documents.
Primary Convener:  Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Natalie Pekney, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Natalie Pekney, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Natalie Pekney, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1878 Water/energy interactions [HYDROLOGY]
1894 Instruments and techniques: modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Short-interval repeat ground-based surveys of fugitive emissions from oil production facilities in the Bakken (180315)
Jacob Englander1, Jingfan Wang2, Eric Lebel1, Adam R Brandt3 and Robert B Jackson4, (1)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
A High-Speed Continuous Recording High Flow Gas Sampler for Measuring Methane Emissions from Pneumatic Devices at Oil and Natural Gas Production Facilities (191684)
Thomas Ferrara, GHD Services Inc., Niagara Falls, NY, United States and Touche M Howard, Indaco Air Quality Services, Durham, NC, United States; Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Quantifying methane emissions and sources in the Colorado Front Range (195693)
Stacey Hughes1, Amy Townsend-Small2, Jason Schroeder1, Nicola J Blake1 and Donald Ray Blake1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Mobile sensing of point-source fugitive methane emissions using Bayesian inference: the determination of the likelihood function (197483)
Xiaochi Zhou, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and John D Albertson, Cornell University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Quantification of Methane Leaks from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in California (198129)
Eric Lebel1, Mary Kang2, Harmony Lu2 and Robert B Jackson3, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Improved oilfield GHG accounting using a global oilfield database (199086)
Samori Roberts, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA, United States, Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States and Mohammad S. Masnadi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
The Impact of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on Phytoplankton as Evidenced Through the Sedimentary Dinoflagellate Cyst Records in Prince William Sound (Alaska, USA). (129409)
Maximilien Genest1, Vera Pospelova1, Joshua R Williams2, Timothy Dellapenna3, Kenneth Mertens4 and Steven A Kuehl5, (1)University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Department of Physical Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (3)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Departments of Marine Science and Oceanography, Galveston, TX, United States, (4)IFREMER, Concarneau Cedex, France, (5)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States
Quantifying the Movement and Dissolution of Fugitive Methane in Shallow Aquifers: Visualization Experiments (149868)
Cole J.C. Van De Ven, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada and Kevin Mumford, Queen's University, Department of Civil Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada
Methane Emissions from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in Western Pennsylvania (160964)
Natalie Pekney, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, United States, James Sams, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States and Garret Veloski, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
A Case Study Examining Egypt, Nigeria, and Venezuela and their Flaring Behavior Utilizing VIIRS Satellite Data (168240)
Adrian T Austin1, Adam R Brandt2 and Jacob Englander1, (1)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
A Study on the gas productivity by using Experimental Results of Stress-induced Permeability Change in Coal Seam (171544)
Il Oh Kang, Ki-hong Kim, Jeong-min Han and Seong-min Lee, KOGAS, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South)
The Corrosion Study in the Tubing for Gas Production on the CBM Reservoir including CO2 (172255)
Ki-hong Kim, Il Oh Kang, Jeong-min Han and Seong-min Lee, KOGAS, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South)
Methane Emissions from Hydraulically Fractured Natural Gas Developments in Northeastern British Columbia (177875)
Emmaline Elizabeth Atherton1, David A Risk2, Chelsea Renée Fougère3, Martin Lavoie1, Alex D Marshall1 and John Werring4, (1)St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada, (2)St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada, (3)St. Francis Xavier University, Earth Science, Antigonish, NS, Canada, (4)David Suzuki Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
Is Optical Gas Imaging Effective for Detecting Fugitive Methane Emissions? – A Technological and Policy Perspective (179929)
Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Jingfan Wang, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Measuring methane emissions from abandoned and active oil and gas wells in West Virginia (182722)
Stuart N Riddick1, Denise L. Mauzerall2, Michael A Celia3, Christopher Chu3, Kara Bressler3, Caleb Gum3 and Mary Kang4, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
A Holistic Assessment of Energy Production: Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing in Williams County, North Dakota (183588)
Jessica Jagdeo, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Characterization and estimation of methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania (184371)
Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Shanna Christian, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Michael A Celia, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Denise L. Mauzerall, Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Princeton, NJ, United States and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States

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