Oil Pollutions and Soil Contamination Controls

Introduction

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm, or discomfort to the ecosystem. Environmental Pollution Control identifies and examines the characteristics and sources of the major environmental pollutants. Oil and gas operations have a variety of impacts on the environment through pollution. These impacts depend upon the nature, stage, complexity, and size of the operation and sensitivity of the surrounding environment. The major environmental concerns associated with oil and gas operations are oil spills, drilling waste fluids or mud, drilling waste solids, produced water, and volatile organics.

Environmental protection is an important challenge for the oil and gas industry. Therefore, it has worked for a long time to meet this challenge. Much has already been achieved but the industry recognizes that even more can be accomplished. The continued sharing of best practices and the application of comprehensive management systems by oil companies and their contractors and suppliers are essential. This course is designed to provide an overview of the environmental issues in the oil and gas industry to achieve high environmental performance. Due to new legislation and increasing, environmental monitoring requirements for atmospheric emissions, wastewater, solid waste, and new land developments are contributing to increasing demand for qualified staff. Therefore, course participants will be familiarized with the health, ecological, and climatic impact of a wide range of pollutants in the oil and gas industry and the scientific principles behind these effects. The course covers the different methods to control different pollutions during the oil and gas operations.

Objectives

On completion of this course participants should be able to:

• Know what types of pollutions and wastes are generated by the various processes of oil and gas operations
• Understand the environmental management systems, ISO 14001, and API regulations
• Carry out a site inspection and environmental impact assessment (EIA).
• Understand the importance and benefits of waste minimization associated with oil and gas operations.
• Be able to identify, manage, and control hazardous and non-hazardous oil and gas wastes.
• Aware of and understand the noise, air, land, and water pollution control processes and techniques.
• Aware of the solid waste treatment and radioactive scale handling and disposal.
• Know how to deal with oil spills (control and treatment technology)
• Identify the best practicable environmental options within the oil and gas operations
• Understand the environmental monitoring techniques and processes
• Know everything about an oil spill (e. g. definition, sources, detection, monitoring, etc….)
• Know different oil spill sources
• Understand and how to evaluate risk assessment of oil spill
• How to manage oil spill
• Understand the principles of responsible management of major oil spill incidents
• Understand the environmental impacts of the oil spill
• Learn the characteristics of the different equipment, which used in the striving of the oil spills
• How to clean up of shoreline  

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for personnel who work direct or indirectly with oil fields such as, oilfield production staff and engineers, supervisors and managers, environmental scientists and engineers, chemical suppliers, and facilities design engineers. Furthermore, people involved in the development, manufacture, and marketing of process plants and instruments for pollution control. Also, those involved in legal and insurance aspects of pollution may benefit from the cross-disciplinary content of the course.

Course Outline

• Introduction to environmental issues and laws
• Oil and gas operations
• Environmental pollutions (noise, air, water and land) in oil and gas industry.
• Site inspection and environmental impact assessment (EIA) in oil and gas industry
• Environmental management systems in oil and gas industry
• Hazardous and non-hazardous oil and gas waste management
• Waste minimization associated with oil and gas operations
• Pollution controls in the oil and gas industry 
• Oil spill management: introduction, definition, detection, and monitoring
• International law relating to oil pollution
• Oil spill contingency planning
• Oil spill response- operational management
• Oil spill response- tactical operations and equipment (theoretical)
• Oil spill evaluation
• Management of major spill incidents (MOMSI)
• Case histories