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Disposal of NORM-contaminated oil field wastes in salt caverns -- Legality, technical feasibility, economics, and risk

Veil, J.A.; Smith, K.P.; Tomasko, D.; Elcock, D.; Blunt, D. - 2009

caverns could be cost competitive with existing NORM waste disposal methods when regulatory agencies approve the practice. …

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Risk assessment of nonhazardous oil-field waste disposal in salt caverns.

Elcock, D. - 2008

Salt caverns can be formed in underground salt formations incidentally as a result of mining or intentionally to create underground chambers for product storage or waste disposal. For more than 50 years, salt caverns have been used to store hydrocarbon products. Recently, concerns over the costs...

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Risk analyses for disposing of nonhazardous oil field wastes in salt caverns

Tomasko, D.; Elcock, D.; Veil, J. - 2009

Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has completed an evaluation of the possibility that adverse human health effects (carcinogenic and noncarcinogenic) could result from exposure to contaminants released from nonhazardous oil field wastes (NOW) disposed of in domal salt caverns. In this...

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Downhole oil/water separators - What's new?

Veil, J. A. - 2008

The US Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Petroleum Technology Office is interested in new technologies that can … bring oil to the surface at a lower cost or with less environment impact. DOE is particularly interested in technologies …

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Review of the cost-effectiveness of EPA`s offshore oil and gas effluent guidelines

Veil, J.A. - 2008

document to these regulations, EPA published a Cost-Effectiveness (CE) Analysis (EPA, 1991). This report calculated the CE of … treatment option has a different cost and will result in removal of different levels of pollutants. The report calculates the … annualized cost for each option and the pound equivalents (PE) removed and expresses the CE as $/PE. While not officially …

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Review of the cost-effectiveness of EPA's offshore oil and gas effluent guidelines

Veil, J.A. - 2008

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Wetland mitigation banking for the oil and gas industry: Assessment, conclusions, and recommendations

Wilkey, P.L.; Sundell, R.C.; Bailey, K.A.; Hayes, D.C. - 2008

Wetland mitigation banks are already in existence in the United States, and the number is increasing. To date, most of these banks have been created and operated for mitigation of impacts arising from highway or commercial development and have not been associated with the oil and gas industry....

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Estimate of the risks of disposing nonhazardous oil field wastes into salt caverns

Tomasko, D.; Elcock, D.; Veil, J. - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436625

The feasibility of effluent trading in the energy industries

Veil, J.A. - 2009

In January 1996, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a policy statement endorsing effluent trading in watersheds, hoping to spur additional interest in the subject. The policy describes five types of effluent trades - point source/point source, point source/nonpoint source,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436361

Blunt, D. L.; Gooden, D. S.; Smith, K. P. - 2008

In the absence of any federal regulations that specifically address the handling and disposal of wastes containing naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM), individual states have taken responsibility for developing their own regulatory programs for NORM. A key issue in developing NORM...

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