Title: Emissions from Natural Gas Production in the Barnett Shale Area and Opportunities for Cost-Effective Improvements

Natural gas production in the Barnett Shale region of Texas has increased rapidly since 1999, and as of June 2008, over 7700 oil and gas wells had been installed and another 4700 wells were pending. Gas production in 2007 was approximately 923 Bcf from wells in 21 counties. Emission sources from the oil and gas sector in the Barnett Shale area were divided into point sources, which included compressor engine exhausts and oil/condensate tanks, as well as fugitive and intermittent sources, which included production equipment fugitives, well drilling and fracing engines, well completions, gas processing, and transmission fugitives. The air pollutants considered in this inventory were smog-forming compounds (NOx and VOC), greenhouse gases, and air toxic chemicals. Also, natural gas, condensate and oil production.

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   Person Information

  •     Alvarez, Ramon  -  Environmental Defense Fund

  •     Armendariz, Al  -  Southern Methodist University
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 211111 - Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction 原油和天然气开采  Shale Gas 页岩气              
Company  Product  Process  Other  Subjects  Event  Event  Date  Location  Publication  Publication  Date Text  Descriptor

  • Environmental Defense Fund

  • Southern Methodist University

 

  • Methane

  • Volatile Organic Compound

 

 

  • , TX USA

 

 

  • 1/26/2009

 

  • Article