Chemicals Used in Oil Well Production [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContributor
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2014.
This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) provides information on the sources, use patterns, and potential release pathways of chemicals used in petroleum production at oil wells. The document presents standard approaches for estimating the environmental releases of and occupational exposures to oil production chemicals.
Explanatory Notes 8 -Purpose and background 8 -How to use this document&nbsp;8 -Coverage and methodology 8 -How this document was developed 10 1. Industry Summary and Background 13 -1.1 Exploration 14 -1.2 Well Development 14 -1.3 Petroleum Production 15 -1.4 Site Abandonment15 2. Process Description 16 -2.1 Petroleum Production from Oil Wells 16 -2.2 Stages of Petroleum Production 16 -2.3 Petroleum Production Chemicals&nbsp;18 3. Overall Approach and General Facility Estimates 20 -3.1 Introduction to the General Facility Estimates 21 -3.2 Days of Operation (TIMEoperating_days and TIMEworking_days) 21 -3.3 Concentration of the Oil Well Chemical in Received Formulation (Fchem) 22 -3.4 Injection Concentration of Oil Well Chemicals (Fchem_used_oil and Fchem_used_water) -3.5 Daily Use Rate of Oil Well Chemical (Qchem_oil_site_day and Qchem_water_site_day) 24 -3.6 Number of Sites (Nsites)&nbsp;28 -3.7 Number of Transport Containers Unloaded per Site (Ncontainer_unload_site_yr) 29 4. Environmental Release Assessments 31 -4.1 Control Technologies&nbsp; 32 -4.2 Release to Water, Incineration, or Land from Container Residue (Release 1) 32 -4.3 Release to Water or Land from Equipment and Storage Tank Cleaning (Release 2)&nbsp;34 -4.4 Release to Refinery (Incineration) from Separation Process (Release 3) 35 -4.5 Release to Water or Deep Well Injection from Separation Process (Release 4)&nbsp;38 -4.6 Release to Land from Separation Process (Release 5)&nbsp; 40 5. Occupational Exposure Assessments 40 -5.1 Personal Protective Equipment 41 -5.2 Number of Workers Exposed Per Site 41 -5.3 Exposure from Unloading Transport Containers into Mixing Vessel (Exposure A) 42 -5.4 Exposure from Transport Container Cleaning (Exposure B) 43 -5.5 Exposure from Equipment/Storage Tank Cleaning (Exposure C) 44 6 Sample Calculations 45 -6.1 General Facility Estimates&nbsp;45 -6.2 Release Assessments 47 -6.3 Occupational Exposure Assessments 50 7. Data Gaps / Uncertainties and Future Work 52 References 54&nbsp; Appendix A: Estimating Equation Summary and Default parameter Values Appendix B: Background Information and Equations/Defaults for the Standard CEB Environmental Release and Worker Exposure Models  
This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) provides information on the sources, use patterns, and potential release pathways of chemicals used in petroleum production at oil wells. The document presents standard approaches for estimating the environmental releases of and occupational exposures to oil production chemicals.
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