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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: Carbon dioxide ( CO2 )

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► Year 2000 —

● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —

Amount: 3,157,977 tonnes of CO2 Emitted (3,157,977 tonnes CO2 Eq.)
Basis: Calculation
Calculation: [Fuel combustion] * [Heat content] * [Fuel CO2 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 CO2 emission = 0.0651 g / btu
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.
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.

● Greenhouse gas emitted per unit activity —

Amount: 52.6 g of CO2 per scf of Associated gas
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