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Oil & Gas Activities on Public Lands

Scott F. Archer

USDI – BLM

National Science &

Technology Center

April 3, 2007

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What is wrong with O&G?

• There is a lot of it.

• There will be more of it.

• The process is fragmented.

• Many small sources, not subject to permitting.

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And it’s Ugly.

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Where does it come from?

• Oil• Gas• Coal• Coal Bed

Methane• Oil Shale• Tar Sands

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Where is it located?

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Where is it located?

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Multiple Companies

• Exploration• Drilling• Servicing• Trucking• Pipelines• Compressors• Refining• Sales

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Leasing

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Drilling

• Very large diesel engines (500-1500 hp)

• Going to year-round operation

• Going to multiple wells off a single pad

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Testing

• Post “Fracting”

• Large quantities of water

• “Free” flow to determine drawdown

• CO, NOx, possible SO2 emissions

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“Oil” Well

• Small well head engines

• Separator• Dehydration• Evap Pond• Storage tanks• Waste pit

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Dehydrator

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Tanks

• Water and/or crude

• VOCs and HAPs

• Sometimes H2S

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Tanker Trucks

• Regular servicing• VOC emissions• Truck Exhaust• Road Dust

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Gas Compression• Wide range of sizes

and types• Single cylinder Pop-

pops• Converted Auto

Engines• 500 hp + engines• Electrification• Use on-site fuels

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The “Good”…

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The “Typical”… (and not so typical)

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and the “Ugly”

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BLM’s Role

• Leasing• Specific Project Approval• Royalties and PILT• NEPA analyses• Applications for Permit to Drill• Stipulations and Conditions of Approval• Inspection and Enforcement

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Leasing

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Royalties

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NEPA Documents

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Alaskan Inspection and Enforcement

For more information

Contact

Scott F. Archer

Senior Air Resource Specialist

303.236.6400

scott_archer@blm.gov