Last reviewed on February 25, 2013 at 15:55
Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory
(5th Edition - Last updated on 02/19/2013)
♦ Category: Energy
| IPCC: |
1A1cii - Fuel Combustion Activities - Energy Industries - Manufacture of Solid Fuels and Other Energy Industries - Other Energy Industries |
| Sector: |
Industrial : Oil & Gas Extraction |
♦ Activity: Fuel combustion - Associated gas
♦ Greenhouse gas: Methane ( CH4 )
► Year 2000 —
● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —
| Amount: |
48.48 tonnes of CH4 Emitted (1,018 tonnes CO2 Eq.) |
| Basis: |
Calculation |
| Calculation: |
[Fuel combustion] * [Heat content] * [Fuel CH4 emission] |
| Reference: |
IPCC (2006). 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme, Eggleston H.S., Buendia L., Miwa K., Ngara T., and Tanabe K. (eds). Volume 2, Chapter 2: Stationary Combustion. Published: IGES, Japan. http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/2_Volume2/V2_2_Ch2_Stationary_Combustion.pdf |
● Activity level used in calculations —
| Activity: |
Fuel combustion = 60,003,174,000 scf of Associated gas |
| Basis: |
Data |
| Reference: |
Kustic, T. (2011). Personal communication between Larry Hunsaker of CA Air Resources Board and Tim Kustic of the CA Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources. Summer 2011. http://www.conservation.ca.gov/DOG/Pages/Index.aspx |
● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —
| Parameter: |
Fuel CH4 emission = 1.000E-06 g / btu |
| Reference: |
USEPA (2012). Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Regulation http://www.epa.gov/ghgreporting/ |
| Parameter: |
Heat content = 808 btu / scf |
| Reference: |
Wang, D. M. (2007). Personal communication between Larry Hunsaker, CA Air Resources Board and Michael D. Wang, Senior Advisor, Western States Petroleum Association. Summer 2007. |
| Constant: |
Global warming potential of CH4 = 21 |
| Reference: |
IPCC (1996). Second Assessment Report. Climate Change 1995: WG I - The Science of Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell (eds.); Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, U.K. |
● Greenhouse gas emitted per unit activity —
| Amount: |
8.080E-04 g of CH4 per scf of Associated gas
0.017 g of CO2eq. per scf of Associated gas |
