Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Mitigation and Monitoring Technology Performance: Activities of the GHG Technology Verification Center

Abstract

This paper was prepared for presentation at the 1999 SPE/EPA Exploration and Production Environmental Conference held in Austin, Texas, 28 February-3 March 1999.

The IPPC directive and technique qualification at offshore oil and gas installations

“…Even though new technology typically goes through a formal qualification process, these technology qualification processes are limited with respect to providing a qualitative prediction of the real system being assessed. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program to facilitate the deployment of innovative or improved environmental technologies through performance verification and dissemination of information (Masemore and Kirchgessner, 1999). The main objective of this program is to provide credible performance data for commercialready technologies to aid vendors in selling innovative technologies and regulators and purchasers in making their decisions.…”

“…The use of risk and reliability based approaches in the qualification programs provides a better understanding the techniques' risk and reliability implications to a project during the decision making process (PSA, 2008;Hother and Hebert, 2005;Fennell et al, 1994;Aarnes et al, 2009). Even though new technology typically goes through a formal qualification process, these technology qualification processes are limited in relation to providing a qualitative prediction of the real system being assessed (Masemore and Kirchgessner, 1999). However, there is an uncertainty related to the performance of a new technology in a complex system, such as offshore oil and gas facilities even though the technology is being verified for certain conditions (Hother and Hebert, 2005).…”