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ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling US-Canada Northern Oil and G

Todd M. Paget, P. Eng . Industrial Specialist – Oil & Gas Environment Division Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT). ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling

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ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling US-Canada Northern Oil and G

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  1. Todd M. Paget, P. Eng. Industrial Specialist – Oil & Gas Environment Division Department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling US-Canada Northern Oil and Gas Research Forum November 13, 2012, Anchorage Alaska

  2. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Overview Where? • NWT, Canada Why? • Project Motivation What? • Regional Waste Management How? • ESRF • RWMTool • Deliverables When? • Timelines

  3. Significant Resource Potential in NWT, Canada Alaska

  4. Mackenzie Valley - NWT Beaufort: on, near, and offshore AK Beaufort Sea AK YK YK NWT NWT Central Mackenzie Valley BC AB

  5. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool Project Motivation • Significant O&G potential in NWT: onshore, near-shore, offshore • Historically: reliance on municipal infrastructure for industrial waste • Existing NWT infrastructure does not meet industrial needs • Government, Land Claimants, Stakeholder concerns: • Waste management for on-shore, near-shore and off-shore upstream oil and gas • Various waste streams, substantial quantities • facilities not designed, managed or licensed to accommodate • Regulatory jurisdiction and requirements unclear • Coordination of treatment/disposal lacking • No integrated regional approaches • May result in adverse and unacceptable environmental economic effects/liabilities to NWT communities, governments • Future development exacerbates challenges • Result: determining approaches to waste management one of the most controversial and time-consuming aspects of planning, assessments and reviews…

  6. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool • O&G Waste Management identified as priority: • Consultations in regional planning processes: • Beaufort Sea Strategic Regional Plan of Action • Beaufort Basin Regional Environmental Assessment • Significant during Joint Review Panel for proposed MGP • Regional Waste Management? • Requirements: • Assess immediate and long-term regional management issues and options resulting from waste production and disposal • Infrastructure, transportation • Where? On-shore, near-shore and off-shore in the NWT • Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) • Gwich’in Settlement Area (GSA) • Sahtu Settlement Area (SSA)

  7. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool ESRF Sponsored Study Project Concept and Proposal developed, submitted to ESRF…… • Environmental Studies Research Funds (ESRF): • Initiated in 1983, receives its legislative mandate through the Canada Petroleum Resources Act (CPRA) • Designed to assist in the decision-making process related to O&G exp. and dev. on Canada's frontier lands • Frontier lands: where Canada has the rights situated in areas north of 60 degrees, and offshore of Canada's East and West Coasts • Sponsors environmental and social studies pertaining to petroleum exploration, development, and production activities on frontier lands. • Funding provided through levies on frontier lands paid by interested holders; i.e. O&G companies • Directed by joint government/industry/public management board • Administered by secretariat, in Office of Energy Research and Development, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

  8. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool RWMTool Technical Objectives: • Combine waste streams, and projects over regional temporal and spatial boundaries • Built on database(s) • Waste stream types (WS) and quantities • Waste factors (WF) • Infrastructure and Design Standards in a Searchable Database • Simulate development scenarios projected over spatial and temporal boundaries • Compare: • Mass balance scenarios over regional temporal and spatial boundaries • Infrastructure and Design Standards Develop info, options……………

  9. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool • Compile waste tables • Verify types… • Establish Waste Factors (WF) • Project over common times and spaces of operation…

  10. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool RWMToolConceptual Example X Y ∑WFx x t1 ∑WFyx t2 time 1(ti⇨tn) time 2(tii⇨tn) ∑WF(x, y, z) x ∑ tn Z ∑WFz x t3 • Spatial Boundaries… time 3 (tiii⇨tn) • Their wastes streams overlap in space and time… ∑WF(x, y, z) x tn = Scenario A

  11. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool Project Objectives • Assist in identifying the economic constraints and opportunities with regard to regional waste management options • Assist decision-makers in developing regional waste management strategies: • environmentally sound • cost effective • technically feasible • socially acceptable • While minimizing the cumulative environmental impacts that may otherwise occur • Win win for everyone….

  12. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool Key Deliverables • Task 1: • Gather and Prepare Model Input Data, and Database • Task 2: • Compile Infrastructure and Design Standards in a Searchable Database • Task 3: Develop Regional Waste Modelling Tool: • Application interface (API) OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) compliant for integrations with GIS software and Web Mapping Services (WMS) • Task 4: • Final Report

  13. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling Tool - RWMTool Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Project Timeline Environment & Natural Resources (ENR) – TAG Lead Environment Canada (EC) Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) Industry Rep Contractor (AMEC)

  14. ESRF NWT Upstream Oil & Gas Waste Stream Study: Regional Waste Management Modelling US-Canada Northern Oil and Gas Research Forum November 13, 2012, Anchorage Alaska Thank you! Questions? Todd M. Paget, P. Eng. : todd_paget@gov.nt.ca Industrial Specialist – Oil & Gas Environment Division, ENR, GNWT

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