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1. Introduction
The collection, collation, and reporting of upstream environmental information has been
a central part of the IOGP work programme since 1998. IOGP Member Companies are
invited to submit data relating to their exploration and production activities on an annual
basis. Submitted data are compiled, analysed, and reported in the annual Environmental
Performance Indicators Report.
Seven categories of data collection have been established to give a representative view of
performance. They are:
• gaseous emissions
• energy consumption
• flaring
• produced water
• non-aqueous drilling fluids retained on cuttings discharged to sea
• spills
• fresh water drawn from the environment
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Data are reported on a country-by-country basis for all operations where the company is
either the operator or has majority or controlling interest, and has an officer assigned as
the senior managing director of the joint venture operation.
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Operations which are to be excluded in IOGP reporting are non-exploration and production
activities and those that fall outside the operational control of the reporting company.
Examples include:
• gas processing activities with the primary intent of producing gas liquids for sale
(unless data cannot be separated out)
– secondary liquid separation (e.g., Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) extraction using
refrigeration processing)
– Ethane, Propane, Butane, Condensate (EPBC) fractionation
– Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Gas to Liquids (GTL) operations (LNG data are
being compiled separately from the exploration and production data using this
same process)
• transportation of personnel
• transportation of oil and gas after sales metering devices (LACT units) or after ship
loading at the primary production site
• storage of refined products
• partners' operations
• non-operated joint ventures, except when the operator is not an IOGP Member and
the joint venture has agreed that one company should take the lead on data reporting
• upgrading activities related to the extraction of hydrocarbons
• all other non-exploration and production activities
Emissions, discharges, and energy from crude oil and natural gas terminals or processing
facilities are categorized by the source of production and not the location where they occur,
e.g., where production is offshore and emissions and/or discharges are generated from an
onshore terminal, the emissions and/or discharges are to be reported as offshore.
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Could also be known as sales or marketed production.
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• Flare – This category would include emissions generated by burning of gases (or
in some cases liquids) in a thermal destruction device, including exploration and
production flaring of associated gas (and in some cases liquids) from oil production or
well testing. Typical equipment sources in this category include:
– Flares
Methane emissions occur from flaring as a result of incomplete combustion of
flared gas (default unburned fraction is generally considered to be 2% (ref. API
Compendium of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Methodologies). The native carbon
dioxide from the reservoir shall be considered (if significant) as process vent
regardless of the emission point.
• Process vents – This category includes intentional emissions related to the controlled
release of gases directly into the atmosphere resulting from the process design, most
typically through a vent pipe, seal, or duct. The gases might be natural gas or other
hydrocarbon gases, water vapor, and other gases, such as carbon dioxide, separated
in the processing of oil or natural gas. Potential vent sources include:
– pressure relief vents (i.e., those not directed to flare systems)
– process vents (i.e., where not directed to flare systems), potentially including
vents of gases from wells or associated gases after separation and vent gases
from natural gas driven pneumatic controllers, natural gas driven pneumatic
pumps, compressor seals, dehydration units and gas separation units (e.g.,
amine units for acid gas removal)
– tank storage (including flashing, loading and unloading, and breathing
losses to atmosphere)
– produced water treatment
– vessel and truck/railcar loading
– maintenance (compressor blowdowns, etc., if gases not directed to flare)
– unlit flare vents
The native carbon dioxide from the reservoir shall be considered (if significant) as process
vent.
• Fugitive losses – This category would include unintentional losses to the atmosphere
from leaking equipment, e.g., valves, flanges, and fittings.
• Other/unspecified
– emissions related to events/incidents (e.g., pipeline leak or rupture)
– companies that cannot provide, at this time, a break down by source of their
emissions data for a given country, should report their emissions in this
category.
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Other resources
• Ipieca – Methane emissions glossary, 2021: for detailed description of methane sources
• Ipieca – Climate change reporting framework. A pilot guidance document for the oil and
gas industry. 2017.
• Petroleum industry guidelines for reporting greenhouse gas emissions (2nd Edition) Joint
Ipieca/API/IOGP Report, 2011
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Because of concerns about toxicity, Group I cuttings are not discharged. Where
transportation of cuttings to shore or injection of cuttings is possible, however, these fluids
may still be in use.
Group III includes synthetic based fluids that are produced by chemical reactions of
relatively pure compounds (e.g., esters) and can include synthetic hydrocarbons (olefins
and paraffins). Highly processed mineral oils are also included (e.g., paraffins, enhanced
mineral oil-based fluid (EMBF)).
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Spills occurring from support and standby vessels are to be included. Spills of produced
water or process wastewater are to be reported as chemical spills. Loss of containment
resulting from acts of sabotage (such as theft of oil from pipelines and storage) or
terrorism should be reported.
Spill descriptions are requested for spills greater than 100 bbl in size and for spills between
10-100 bbl in size.
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Water scarcity
Sites located in an arid zone, as defined by WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas could be
classed as water scarce.
Water stress
Sites located in an area with an annual baseline water stress of “medium to high”, as
defined by WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, could be classed as water scarce.
Uses
• domestic use
• drilling and completion (includes hydraulic fracturing and workover)
• firefighting systems
• pressure maintenance
• EOR or pressure maintenance
• other process uses (e.g., steam generation, washing and cleaning activities)
– includes hydro testing and mixing chemicals, desalting water
• other uses (not linked to any process)
• unspecified (use not available)
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Source
• groundwater/company owned water wells
• surface water, including water from lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers
• municipal water supplies/industrial transfer, or other water utilities
• treated municipal wastewater
• captured rainwater
• other sources
• unspecified (source not available)
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These conversion factors should be used only when the data are available with a standard which
differs from the required one, and when the ad hoc conversion factor is not known (for example,
when data related to the quantity of oil produced are expressed in barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) and
when the mean density of the production is not known).
density of chemicals, solvents, and all other products spilled 1.0 t m-3
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Diesel qualities (density and heating value) may differ from one part of the world to another.
In lack of correct (local) data, the following values may be used:
Field specific data for net calorific values (NCV) should be used if available. If such data are
unavailable, the following values can be used:
Ratios between GCV and NCV depend on hydrocarbon composition. Field specific data should
therefore be used if available. If such data are unavailable, the following values can be used:
The following default conversion factor can be used for purchased electricity, and assumes
that the efficiency of electricity produced is 38% of the heat input:
1 kWh = 0.0096 GJ
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Emissions related to Companies that cannot provide at this time a break down by
Other/
events/incidents (e.g., category of their emissions data for a given country should
unspecified pipeline leak or rupture). report their emissions in this category.
References
Ipieca-IOGP-API Sustainability reporting guidance for the oil and gas industry (4th edition, 2020)
https://www.Ipieca.org/our-work/sustainability-reporting/sustainability-reporting-guidance/
IOGP-Ipieca Methane Emissions Glossary
https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/methane-emissions-glossary/
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