‘Report on the Petroleum-Related Environmental Policies of the Member Countries of the World Petroleum Congresses’

‘Report on the Petroleum-Related Environmental Policies of the Member Countries of the World Petroleum Congresses’

At its May 1991 meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia the Executive Board established Task Force 2 under the Environmental Affairs Committee with the following objectives: (i) (ii) (iii) To prepare an inventory of the environmental policies and practices of the WPC member countries as related to certain of the more significant impact areas in the following sectors of the petroleum industry:–Exploration and drilling

–Development and production

–Transportation and storage of crude oil and–Processing and refining (excluding the petro–Product handling and distribution.To collect and summarize assessments made by industry, government, universities, research establishments and others of the necessity for and the technical, economic and social effectiveness of the policies and practices.To present the findings to the Executive Board through the Environmental Affairs Committee. natural gas

chemical industry)

Representatives from Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Norway, U.K. and Venezuela volunteered to serve on the Task Force with Dr. G.W. Govier of Canada named as Chairman. Names and addresses of the Members of the Task Force are given in Appendix 1. The Task Force was assisted by Corresponding Members also listed in Appendix 1.The Task Force agreed that the best way of carrying out its assignment was through two questionnaires, the first, Ql, designed to obtain the inventory of the environmental policies and the second, 42, designed to obtain assessments of the effectiveness of the policies.Proceedings of the 14th World Petroleum Congress 0 1994 The Executive Board of the World Petroleum Congress Published by John Wiley & Sons Ql was designed to obtain summaries of the government policies, as enunciated in legislation or regulations, and as they applied to the major ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AREAS encountered in both UPSTREAM and DOWNSTREAM activities. Provision was made to distinguish between ONSHORE and OFFSHORE operations. The ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AREAS identified were the following:CONTROL OF ESCAPE OF AND CLEAN-UP OF CRUDE OIL INCLUDING NGL OR OTHER LIQUID HYDROCARBONS (i.e. escape, leak or spill from any of well blowout, failure, test, workover, completion, recompletion, or abandonment

equipment failure

pipeline failure

storage tank failure

tank truck failure

etc.) 2. CONTROL OF ESCAPE OF NATURAL GAS INCLUDING LNG AND OTHER GASEOUS HYDROCARBONS (i.e. escape or leak from any of well blowout, failure, test, workover, completion, recompletion, or abandonment

equipment failure

pipeline failure

equipment or tank vent or stack discharge

storage vessel

product handling or distribution, etc.)CONTROL OF ESCAPE OF HYDROGEN SULPHIDE AND OTHER NATURALLY OCCURRING SULPHUR COMPOUNDS

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