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TOP TENBMPs
for Oil & Gas
Industry
Operators
Reduce EmissionsDuring Drilling Reduce EmissionsDuring Production ConserveWater
ReuseResourcesLess ToxicMaterials
High EfficiencyEquipment Monitoring &Maintenance
Construction& ReclamationSystemDesignDust & TailpipeEmissions
For more information on Pollution Preventionand Oil and Gas BMPs, contact:
Utah Department of Environmental Quality
BizHelp.utah.gov
Environmental Hotline: [phone]Environmental Hotline: [phone]Environmental Hotline: [phone]Environmental Hotline: [phone]Environmental Hotline: [phone]
• Use Reduced Emissions Completions (RECs), aka Green Completions to capturegas produced during well completions that is otherwise vented or flared. Electricity
needed.
•Minimize venting and/or use closed loop process where possible during "blow
downs."
•Convert to low-emitting engines.
•Tighten connections and replace packing to minimize leaks and fugitive emissions.
•Use and maintain proper hatches, seals, and valves to minimize air emissions.
•Reduce emissions of unburned hydrocarbons by routing emissions to flare or
combustor or routing dehydrator still emmisions to first stage compression.
•Lower glycol circulation rate to avoid over-dehydrating.
•Utilize on-site water treatment facilities, such as a 3-phase (liquids, condensate,
and gas) separator on the flowback fluid.
•Use carefully planned well completions.
• Recover and reuse weighting materials and drilling fluids. Waste drilling mud canbe reused at other locations for spudding or plugging and abandoning operations.•Substitute organic additives, polymers, or biodegradable additives for oil-based
mud to reduce toxicity.
•Lubricate with mineral oil and lubra-beads instead of diesel oil.
•Replace high bleed valves with compressed air, electric valves, or low bleed valves.
•Install or convert gas operated pneumatic devices to electric, solar, or compressed
air driven devices or controllers.
•Apply water or chemical treatment, such as magnesium chloride, calcium chloride,
lignin sulfonate, or asphalt emulsion.
•Restrict vehicle speeds to 10 mph on site.
•Cover or reclaim excavated or inactive storage piles after activity ceases.
•Eliminate unnecessary vehicle idling.
•Use diversion dikes, containment diking, and curbing to reduce exposure of storm
water runoff to cuttings and other waste storage areas.
•Segregate stormwater drainage from liquid storage, loading/unloading facilities,and operations areas from unimpacted areas.
•Use sediment traps, swales, and mulching during construction activities to reduce
loss of sediment and contamination of runoff.
•Accelerate reclamation of site.
•Reclaim disturbances.
•Improve operational efficiencies by consolidating production, e.g. operating multiple
wells from a production site.
•Implement a directed inspection and maintenance program to identify fugitive
gas leaks from leaking compressors, valves, connectors, seals, and open-endedlines using infrared cameras, organic vapor analyzers, soap solutions, and ultrasonicleak detectors; and measurement devices.
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Pollution Prevention
Pollution Prevention &
the Oil & Gas Industry
Check List
Are you involved in oil and gas projects? If so, this poster and checklist
is for YOU to help prevent pollution during drilling and production,
through processing and storage, to transmission and distribution.
Many oil and gas companies are adopting Best Management
Practices (BMPs) as an important part of their pollution prevention
program to help them cut their air emissions, reduce water use,
control erosion, and reduce the amount of hazardous waste that
they generate.
Pollution Prevention (P2) is about reducing the amount of any
hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant released into the
environment in order to reduce the hazards to public health and the
environment. Pollution Prevention is also about preserving resources
through wise use.
The BMPs within this brochure need to be judged on a case-by-case
basis, taking into account the conditions, operations, and limitations
of each facility. The best time to begin identifying BMPs is before a
project begins. Many of these BMPs can help you comply with
regulations that are required by law.
A Checklist Of Actions
That Oil And Gas Operators
Can Take To Reduce Waste
And Air Emissions
For more information on
Pollution Prevention and Oil and Gas BMPs, contact:
Utah Department of Environmental Quality
BizHelp.utah.gov
Environmental Hotline: [phone] Environmental Hotline: [phone] Environmental Hotline: [phone] Environmental Hotline: [phone] Environmental Hotline: [phone]
10 •Use diversion dikes, containment diking, and curbing to reduce exposure of
storm water runoff to cuttings and other waste storage areas.
•Segregate stormwater drainage from liquid storage, loading/unloading
facilities, and operations areas from unimpacted areas.
•Use sediment traps, swales, and mulching during construction activities to
reduce loss of sediment and contamination of runoff.
•Accelerate reclamation of site.
•Reclaim disturbances.
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•Replace high bleed valves with compressed air, electric valves, or low bleed
valves.
InInstall or convert gas operated pneumatic devices to electric, solar, or
compressed air driven devices or controllers.
•Implement a Directed Inspection and Maintenance program to identify and
repair fugitive gas leaks from leaking compressors, valves, connectors, seals,
and open-ended lines using infrared cameras, organic vapor analyzers, soap
solutions, and ultrasonic leak detectors.
•Improve operational efficiencies by consolidating production, e.g., operating
multiple wells from a production site.
High Efficiency Equipment
Monitoring & Maintenance
System Design
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•Apply water or chemical treatment, such as magnesium chloride, calcium
chloride, lignin sulfonate, or asphalt emulsion.
•Restrict vehicle speeds to 10 mph on site.
•Cover or reclaim excavated or inactive storage piles after activity ceases.
•Eliminate unnecessary vehicle idling.
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1 • Use Reduced Emissions Completions (RECs), aka Green Completions to capture gas produced during well completions that is otherwise vented or
flared. Electricity needed.
•Minimize venting and/or use closed loop process where possible during
"blow downs."
•Convert to low-emitting engines.
•Tighten connections and replace packing to minimize leaks and fugitive
emissions.
•Use and maintain proper hatches, seals, and valves to minimize air emissions.
•Reduce emissions of unburned hydrocarbons by routing emissions to flare
or combustor or routing dehydrator still emmisions to first stage compression.
•Lower glycol circulation rate to avoid over-dehydrating.
•Utilize on-site water treatment facilities, such as a 3-phase (liquids,
condensate, and gas) separator on the flowback fluid.
•Use carefully planned well completions.
•Substitute organic additives, polymers, or biodegradable additives for oil-
based mud to reduce toxicity.
•Lubricate with mineral oil and lubra-beads instead of diesel oil.
• Recover and reuse weighting materials and drilling fluids. Waste drilling mud can be reused at other locations for spudding or plugging and abandoning operations.
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