Volatile organic compound emissions from the oil and natural gas industry in the Uintah Basin, Utah: Oil and gas well pad emissions compared to ambient air composition

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 10977-10988

  Warneke, C ^a,b   Geiger, F ^c   Edwards, P M ^a,b   Dube, W ^a,b   Petron G ^a,b   Kofler, J ^a,b   Zahn, A ^c   Brown, S S ^b   Graus, M ^a,b   Gilman, J B ^a,b   Lerner, B M ^a,b   Peischl, J ^a,b   Ryerson, T B ^b   De Gouw, J A ^a,b   Roberts, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS WELL; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; MIXING RATIO; NATURAL GAS; OIL INDUSTRY; OIL WELL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

UINTA BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 84908450807     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-10977-2014     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Allen, D. T., Torres, V. M., Thomas, J., Sullivan, D. W., Harrison, M., Hendler, A., Herndon, S. C., Kolb, C. E., Fraser, M. P., Hill, A. D., Lamb, B. K., Miskimins, J., Sawyer, R. F., and Seinfeld, J. H.: Measurements of methane emissions at natural gas production sites in the United States, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 110, 17768-17773, 2013.
2. de Gouw, J. A. and Warneke, C.: Measurements of volatile organic compounds in the earths atmosphere using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry, Mass Spectrom. Rev., 26, 223-257, 2007.
3. Edwards, P. M., Young, C. J., Aikin, K., deGouw, J., Dubé, W. P., Geiger, F., Gilman, J., Helmig, D., Holloway, J. S., Kercher, J., Lerner, B., Martin, R., McLaren, R., Parrish, D. D., Peischl, J., Roberts, J. M., Ryerson, T. B., Thornton, J., Warneke, C., Williams, E. J., and Brown, S. S.: Ozone photochemistry in an oil and natural gas extraction region during winter: simulations of a snow-free season in the Uintah Basin, Utah, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 8955-8971, doi10.5194/acp-13-8955-2013, 2013.
4. Francis, G. J., Wilson, P. F., Milligan, D. B., Langford, V. S., and McEwan, M. T.: GeoVOC: A SIFT-MS method for the analysis of small linear hydrocarbons of relevance to oil exploration, Int. J. Mass Spectr., 268, 38-46, 2007.
5. Fuchs, H., Dube, W. P., Lerner, B. M., Wagner, N. L., Williams, E. J., and Brown, S. S.: A Sensitive and Versatile Detector for Atmospheric NO2 and NOx Based on Blue Diode Laser Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy, Environ. Sci. Technol., 43, 7831-7836, 2009.
6. Gilman, J. B., Burkhart, J. F., Lerner, B. M., Williams, E. J., Kuster, W. C., Goldan, P. D., Murphy, P. C., Warneke, C., Fowler, C., Montzka, S. A., Miller, B. R., Miller, L., Oltmans, S. J., Ryerson, T. B., Cooper, O. R., Stohl, A., and de Gouw, J. A.: Ozone variability and halogen oxidation within the Arctic and sub-Arctic springtime boundary layer, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 10223-10236, doi10.5194/acp-10-10223-2010, 2010.
7. Gilman, J. B., Lerner, B. M., Kuster, W. C., and de Gouw, J. A.: Source Signature of Volatile Organic Compounds from Oil and Natural Gas Operations in Northeastern Colorado, Environ. Sci. Technol., 47, 1297-1305, 2013.
8. Howarth, R. W., Santoro, R., and Ingraffea, A.: Methane and the greenhouse-gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations, Clim. Change, 106, 679-690, 2011.
9. Karion, A., Sweeney, C., Petron, G., Frost, G., Hardesty, R. M., Kofler, J., Miller, B. R., Newberger, T., Wolter, S., Banta, R., Brewer, A., Dlugokencky, E., Lang, P., Montzka, S. A., Schnell, R., Tans, P., Trainer, M., Zamora, R., and Conley, S.: Methane emissions estimate from airborne measurements over a western United States natural gas field, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4393-4397, 2013.
10. Katzenstein, A. S., Doezema, L. A., Simpson, I. J., Blake, D. R., and Rowland, F. S.: Extensive regional atmospheric hydrocarbon pollution in the southwestern United States, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 100, 11975-11979, 2003.
11. Kemball-Cook, S., Bar-Ilan, A., Grant, J., Parker, L., Jung, J. G., Santamaria, W., Mathews, J., and Yarwood, G.: Ozone Impacts of Natural Gas Development in the Haynesville Shale, Environ. Sci. Technol., 44, 9357-9363, 2010.
12. Litovitz, A., Curtright, A., Abramzon, S., Burger, N., and Samaras, C.: Estimation of regional air-quality damages from Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania, Environ. Res. Lett., 8, 014017, doi10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014017, 2013.
13. McKenzie, L. M., Witter, R. Z., Newman, L. S., and Adgate, J. L.: Human health risk assessment of air emissions from development of unconventional natural gas resources, Sci. Total Environ., 424, 79-87, 2012.
14. Peischl, J., Ryerson, T. B., Holloway, J. S., Trainer, M., Andrews, A. E., Atlas, E. L., Blake, D. R., Daube, B. C., Dlugokencky, E. J., Fischer, M. L., Goldstein, A. H., Guha, A., Karl, T., Kofler, J., Kosciuch, E., Misztal, P. K., Perring, A. E., Pollack, I. B., Santoni, G. W., Schwarz, J. P., Spackman, J. R., Wofsy, S. C., and Parrish, D. D.: Airborne observations of methane emissions from rice cultivation in the Sacramento Valley of California, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 117, D00V25, doi10.1029/2012JD017994, 2012.
15. Petron, G., Frost, G., Miller, B. R., Hirsch, A. I., Montzka, S. A., Karion, A., Trainer, M., Sweeney, C., Andrews, A. E., Miller, L., Kofler, J., Bar-Ilan, A., Dlugokencky, E. J., Patrick, L., Moore, C. T., Ryerson, T. B., Siso, C., Kolodzey, W., Lang, P. M., Conway, T., Novelli, P., Masarie, K., Hall, B., Guenther, D., Kitzis, D., Miller, J., Welsh, D., Wolfe, D., Neff, W., and Tans, P.: Hydrocarbon emissions characterization in the Colorado Front Range: A pilot study, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 117, D0430, doi10.1029/2011JD016360, 2012.
16. Ryerson, T. B., Aikin, K. C., Angevine, W. M., Atlas, E. L., Blake, D. R., Brock, C. A., Fehsenfeld, F. C., Gao, R. S., de Gouw, J. A., Fahey, D. W., Holloway, J. S., Lack, D. A., Lueb, R. A., Meinardi, S., Middlebrook, A. M., Murphy, D. M., Neuman, J. A., Nowak, J. B., Parrish, D. D., Peischl, J., Perring, A. E., Pollack, I. B., Ravishankara, A. R., Roberts, J. M., Schwarz, J. P., Spackman, J. R., Stark, H., Warneke, C., and Watts, L. A.: Atmospheric emissions from the Deepwater Horizon spill constrain air-water partitioning, hydrocarbon fate, and leak rate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L07803, doi10.1029/2011GL046726, 2011.
17. Schnell, R. C., Oltmans, S. J., Neely, R. R., Endres, M. S., Molenar, J. V., and White, A. B.: Rapid photochemical production of ozone at high concentrations in a rural site during winter, Nat. Geosci., 2, 120-122, 2009.
18. Spanel, P. and Smith, D.: Selected ion flow tube studies of the reactions of H3O+ NO+, and O$-2+$ with several aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, Int. J. Mass Spectr., 181, 1-10, 1998.
19. Swarthout, R. F., Russo, R. S., Zhou, Y., Hart, A. H., and Sive, B. C.: Volatile organic compound distributions during the NACHTT campaign at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory: Influence of urban and natural gas sources, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 118, 10614-10637, 2013.
20. US Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/, 2014.
21. Utah Oil and Gas: http://oilgas.ogm.utah.gov/Statistics/Statistics.cfm, 2014.
22. Veres, P., Gilman, J. B., Roberts, J. M., Kuster, W. C., Warneke, C., Burling, I. R., and de Gouw, J.: Development and validation of a portable gas phase standard generation and calibration system for volatile organic compounds, Atmos. Measurem. Techn., 3, 683-691, 2010.
23. Warneke, C., Kuczynski, J., Hansel, A., Jordan, A., Vogel, W., and Lindinger, W.: Proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS): Propanol in human breath, Int. J. Mass Spectr. Ion Proc., 154, 61-70, 1996.
24. Warneke, C., De Gouw, J. A., Kuster, W. C., Goldan, P. D., and Fall, R.: Validation of atmospheric VOC measurements by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry using a gas-chromatographic preseparation method, Environ. Sci. Technol., 37, 2494-2501, 2003.
25. Yuan, B., Warneke, C., Shao, M., and de Gouw, J. A.: Interpretation of volatile organic compound measurements by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry over the deepwater horizon oil spill, Int. J. Mass Spectr., 358, 43-48, 2014.