H33N:
Existing and Legacy Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Characterization, Mitigation, and Management I

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Session ID#: 16813

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:

Constraining the abundance of high emitters is critical to mitigating the effect of abandoned oil and gas wells on methane emissions (Invited) (125635)
Amy Townsend-Small, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Thomas Ferrara, GHD Services Inc., Niagara Falls, NY, United States and Anastasia E Fries, University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States
INACTIVE WELLS: ECONOMIC AND POLICY ISSUES (Invited) (176598)
Alan Krupnick, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Comparing Top-down and Bottom-up Estimates of Methane Emissions across Multiple U.S. Basins Provides Insights into National Oil and Gas Emissions and Mitigation Strategies (183231)
Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, Ramon Alvarez, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, United States, David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, International Scientist, Climate and Energy Program, Austin, United States
Repeated helicopter-based surveys of fugitive hydrocarbon emissions from tight oil operations: Persistence and driving factors (198842)
Adam R Brandt1, Jacob Englander2, Robert B Jackson3, Ramon Alvarez4 and David Richard Lyon4, (1)Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, United States
Leaky hydrocarbon wells are an unconsidered source for biogenic methane in the North Sea (173286)
Lisa Vielstädte1, Matthias Haeckel1, Jens Karstens1, Peter Linke1, Mark Schmidt1, Lea Steinle2 and Klaus J G Wallmann1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Basel, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Basel, Switzerland
Assessing fugitive emissions of CH4 from high-pressure gas pipelines in the UK (124758)
Sarah Clancy1, Fred Worrall2, Richard J Davies3, Sam Almond3 and Ian Boothroyd1, (1)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (2)University of Durham, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Using Stream Chemistry Measurements by Scientists and Nonscientists to Assess Leakage from Oil and Gas Wells in Pennsylvania (176039)
Susan L Brantley, Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, Anna Wendt, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Todd A Sowers, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States and Shale Network Team
The State of Well Stimulation in California: Analyses of Data Submittals (193670)
Preston D. Jordan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, Mary Kay Camarillo, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, United States and William T Stringfellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States

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