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Barnett Shale Energy Education Council BSEEC is an association of energy producers, pipelinecompanies and related energy vendors committed topromoting energy education and best practices as it relates tooil and gas leasing, drilling, production, transportation andmarketing in the Barnett Shale. BSEEC is a non-profit, community resource. Web site is at bseec.org . BSEEC member companies account for over 85% of thenatural gas production in the Barnett Shale.
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Economic Impact of Barnett Shale Activities: The Perryman Group Report released September 27, 2011• “The 2011 total effect of Barnett Shale activity includes $11.1billion in annual output and 100,268 jobs in the region.”• “For the state as a whole, Barnett Shale activity leads toestimated 2011 gains in output of almost $13.7 billion and119,216 jobs.• “Approximately 38.5% of the incremental growth in theeconomy of the region over the past decade has been theresult of Barnett Shale activity.• “The overall economic contribution of this phenomenon nowconstitutes about 8.5% of the local business complex.”
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Economic Impact of Barnett ShaleActivities: The Perryman Group Report• In 2011, counties, cities and school districts in the region willreceive some $730.7 million in additional fiscal revenues dueto Barnett Shale and related activity.• The State will receive another $911.8 million for a total gainin local and State taxes of an estimated $1.6 billion.• Over the entire 2001-2011 period, local taxing entitiesreceived an additional $5.3 billion in tax receipts with another$5.8 billion to the State.
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Economic Impact of Barnett ShaleActivities: The Perryman Group Report• “Even though activity was virtually nonexistent 10 years ago, the Barnett Shale’s effects are now larger than other, long- time sources of economic success in the Metroplex: 5% higher than that of aircraft manufacturing, 10% larger than air transportation (including Dallas Love Field, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Fort Worth Alliance Airport) and 83% larger than motor vehicle manufacturing.”• Only a small proportion of total estimated production has occurred to date and the Barnett Shale is expected to continue to generate economic stimulus for local area and state economies for decades to come.”
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Air Studies in the Barnett Shale• BSEEC/TITAN Engineering study• Continuous long-term TCEQ monitors• Flower Mound/Kleinfelder air testing• Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center/Desert Research Institute• City of Fort Worth/ERG study• TCEQ Barnett Shale Special Emissions Inventory and the (ozone) State Implementation Plan
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BSEEC/Titan Engineering Ambient Air Study, June 2010
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BSEEC/TITAN Engineering Study“Based on the results of this study and the healtheffects criteria employed, TITAN concludes thatharmful levels of benzene and other pollutantsare not being emitted from natural gas sites inthe study area.” – Doug Canter, P.E, Principal, TITAN Engineering
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Statement by Keith Sheedy of TCEQ What We Are Finding “Based on the DFW AutoGC data at our ambient air monitoring stations, we are not seeing an increase in benzene levels over typical background levels.”
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Air Studies in Flower Mound conducted by Kleinfelder
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Flower Mound/Kleinfelder Study“…concentrations appear to be consistent withpublished background ambient airconcentrations…”“No VOC noted exceeded the AMCV or ESLcriteria”
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“Monitoring of Emissions from BarnettShale Natural Gas Production Facilities for Population Exposure Assessment”conducted by Desert Research Institute for Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center
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Mickey Leland/DRI Study FindingsInitial hypothesis was that a problem existed;conclusions showed no problem found“The average concentrations of species …were low,generally below 1 ppb.”
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Mickey Leland/DRI Study Findings“There was a steep, exponential decrease inemission concentrations from the site closest toan emission source.”“The concentrations of emissions from the tankdecreases to near background levels at thedistance of approximately 100 meters.”
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Mickey Leland/DRI Study Findings1.0 is the maximumrelative value for eachcompound. None ofthe averages exceededthe ESL. Source: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center Air Quality Study, July 2010
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City of Fort Worth Natural Gas Air Quality Study, July 13, 2011
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Headline in Fort Worth Star Telegram July 15, 2011“Air quality study finds no major health threats”
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ERG’s Stated Purpose of the Study“ERG began field testing in August 2010. The study includedsampling at 388 gas well and gas transportation sites(including more than 1,000 active wells and more than 1,200storage tanks). ERG was able to capture emissions samplesfrom all stages of the gas production process.”“In the end, the study included unannounced up-close pointsource testing, ambient air monitoring, air dispersion modeling,a public health evaluation, a regulatory assessment and fullbuild-out estimates.”
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Major Points of the study’s findings:• “Ambient air monitoring, which included analysis of morethan 15,000 data points, revealed no site-related pollutantsabove health-based screening levels established by the TexasCommission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).”• “For the overwhelming majority of sites considered in thisstudy, the modeling results indicate that Fort Worth’s 600-footsetback distance is adequate to protect public health.”
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ERG Major Findings continued:• A total of 2,126 emission points were identified in the four-month fieldstudy with the Infrared (IR) Camera and Toxic Vapor Analyzer (TVA)• While 96 sites had no detectable emissions with the infrared camera,when emissions were detected, the primary sources were tank thiefhatches, pneumatic valve controllers, tank vents and natural gas pressureregulators.• More than 130 sites that included compressors were visited. Of those,five particular sites may have overall emission rates that exceed regulatorythresholds that are supposed to trigger certain TCEQ permittingrequirements. The emissions from these compressor sites were calculatedusing the best information available from the EPA.
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TCEQ Special Inventory• Phase One (due June 16, 2010) required all companies operating in the Barnett Shale to detail every piece of equipment in operation in order “to determine the location, number and type of emission sources located at upstream and midstream oil and gas operations associated with the Barnett Shale formation.”• Phase Two (due January 16, 2011) required operators to report the annual 2009 emissions for nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants for each piece of equipment reported in Phase One.
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Phase Two Results: Actual Emissions from Barnett Shale facilities• In the 9-county EPA non-attainment area, actual emissionswere 23.2 tons per day in 2009. Extrapolating this using theactual growth rate in producing wells of 0.8% yields emissionsof 23.4 TPD in 2010.• TCEQ’s estimate which appears in their SIP is 101.8 TPD,an over-estimate of 4.4 times.
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Actual Emissions from Barnett Shale natural gas facilities from Phase Two data• Average VOC emissions per well (there were 10,675 wells in the 9-county area) are therefore 0.8 tons per year (ERG estimated 0.7 TPY). Each of these wells is permitted to release 25 TPY.• TCEQ is over-estimating VOC because their models do not recognize the industry’s best practices of using low-bleed pneumatic valves and vapor recovery units where operationally appropriate. TCEQ models rely on emissions factors from outdated and flawed studies.• TCEQ told me that the Phase Two data will be incorporated into the next SIP cycle.
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