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BC Flaring and Venting Reduction Guideline

BC flag British ColumbiaAs has already happened in Alberta and Saskatchewan, British Columbia has developed its own Flaring and Venting Reduction Guideline.

The guideline gives guidance and regulatory requirements for flaring, venting and incinerating in B.C., along with procedural information for items such as: dispersion modeling, flare approval requests and reporting and measuring of flared, vented and incinerated gas.

Flaring and venting are associated with a wide range of energy development activities and operations, including disposal of gas associated with:

  • Oil production (solution gas)
  • Oil & gas well drilling, completion & testing
  • Gas production
  • Unplanned non-routine de-pressuring of process equipment & gas pipelines due to process upsets or emergency
  • Planned non-routine de-pressuring of processing equipment & gas pipelines for maintenance

Significant economic benefits will accrue to the upstream oil and gas industry, as well as the Province of B.C., with the data gathered and volumes totaled. It will help to provide for new investments in gas gathering systems, additions to gas processing facilities to conserve associated gas and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Click here to download the:
BC-Flaring-Venting-Reduction-Guideline-October-2011 version 4.2

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Saskatchewan Upstream Petroleum regulations – S-10, S-20

Saskatchewan released its regulations for the upstream petroleum industry associated gas conservations standards and upstream flaring and incineration specifications. (S-10 & S-20)

Flaring and venting emissions reduction in the upstream oil and gas industry will be an
important factor in reducing Saskatchewan’s overall greenhouse gas emission.
Conservation of flared and vented associated gas could also allow Saskatchewan to
realize significant economic benefit. The economic benefits include new investments
made to develop gas gathering systems and gas processing infrastructures to collect and
process the conserved associated gas.

D&I Services believes this is a positive development and will give everyone in the upstream petroleum industry more certainty in relation to flaring, incineration and gas conservation practices as well as a time line for the implementation and recording of existing volumes. This plan also identifies economical, practical and reliable methods of reducing air pollutant emissions while improving the efficiency and competitiveness of the industry by capturing associated gas that would have been flared or vented and allowing it to be sold.

You can check out the regulations on the Saskatchewan Energy & Resources site through the link above, or download them here:

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Saskatchewan Energy & Resources: S-10 & S-20

Saskatchewan Energy and Resources (SER) recently announced the release of Saskatchewan’s proposed flaring and venting standards, similar to flaring and venting standards for the upstream petroleum industry in Alberta (Directive 17 and Directive 60).

SER released draft versions of:

At this point S-10 and S-20 are only drafts, but we’ll keep you up to date on any regulation changes we see and how the S-10 and S-20 regulations will be implemented.

It’s an important step forward for Saskatchewan in terms of flaring and venting regulation its awareness of greenhouse gas emissions. It should be interesting to see how Saskatchewan’s regulations end up and when its flaring and venting regulations will be implemented.

Check out Saskatchewan Energy and Resources for more info about the Saskatchewan petroleum industry.