Addressing Environmental Concerns in Natural Gas Development
Development of unconventional resources like natural gas has reshaped the global energy landscape. This working group aims to identify best practices to address environmental concerns arising from the increased supply of natural gas. Members will collaborate on topics such as water management, emissions, social impacts, and regulatory standards, with a focus on sharing information and delivering findings to relevant stakeholders.
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Natural gas Addressing Environmental Concerns Sustainability Committee Working group 2 Kota Kinabalu, 8-9 September 2015
The goal The development of Unconventional Resources has fundamentally changed the energy picture of the world. At one time natural gas was expected to be in decline leading to high prices and a certain transition to renewable energy. Improved economics for natural gas exploration that resulted from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has led to an abundance of natural gas supply, lower prices and a new picture for the future of power generation. Following the rising supply of low cost natural gas there has been considerable environmental attention creating a perception that unconventional resource development will result in significant and negative impacts on natural resources (Water, Air, Land, Etc.). The goal is to address the important environmental concerns through the identification of industry best practices that help address or resolve these concerns. FUELING THE FUTURE 2
Group members Anatolii Arbskiii (Gazprom) Mohammad Reza Yousefipour (NIGC) Roy Harstein (SG Leader) represented by G. Rosello Proposal: All nominees that are not in KK should be called or emailed to be encouraged to participate to the work of the groups. Invite members from Canada, China and Argentina. FUELING THE FUTURE WITH GAS 3
Identify Best Practices to Address Environmental Concerns Environmental Concerns (2015-2018 Triennium): Water: Consumption/Contamination/Management/Disposal Emission in the air. Chemicals Social Concerns: Land Noise Dust- Traffic NGOs NORM - Radiation Regulation / Standards Compensation best practices methodologies (water/ emission), if any? There is an interest to have latest information about the development of the shale gas / oil operations in US, Canada, China and Argentina. 4
Deliverables How will we deliver the message to be discussed Target groups: IGU and the world outside IGU. Timing: Interim reports / WGC 2018 Delivery - Discussion papers or magazine articles, IGU-website postings, webinar, presentations at conferences, etc. Deliver an article per year. 1st proposed topic: methane emissions measurement methodology Coordinate the content of the papers with US Presidency FUELING THE FUTURE 5
Plan the triennium To be further discussed with the SG Leader Autumn 2015 - Spring 2016 Research Issues / Papers / Articles Spring 2016 Autumn 2016 Develop Best Practices Proposals Autumn 2016 - Spring 2017 Prepare Articles / Presentations Spring 2017 Autumn 2017 Refine the Message Autumn 2017 - Spring 2018 Preparing final policy paper(s) and WGC setup Spring 2018 WGC (June) 2018 Final preparations for WGC FUELING THE FUTURE 6
Commitments Commit to Participation in interim meetings Research / identify specific issues of concern Research / identify of best practices Post information, papers, presentations to shared drive Communicate FUELING THE FUTURE 7
Communicate By what means? Email + telephone +conference calls+mail By what frequency? Have conference call before with SG 2 leader to discuss the content of the work plan before Cartagena (October 2015) Virtual meetings every two months FUELING THE FUTURE 8
