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Facility based Flaring Estimates

Quinn Hart <qjhart@ucdavis.edu>University of California, DavisJuly 12, 2012

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Flare / Field Association Process OverviewCA

Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of Interest

Threshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

Raster

Process

Vector

Output

Internal

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Field Data Sources

● California Facility Sources○ Supplied by CARB

● Atlas: Petroleum Economist Ltd WORLD ENERGY ATLAS

○ Region data○ Field names and types

● GNS: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GEOnet Names Server (GNS)

○ Point data○ Includes populated places, etc.

● Internet Searches○ Locations○ Descriptive text

CA Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of

InterestThreshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

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Regions of Interest

CA Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of

InterestThreshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

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Lights of Interest Example

CA Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of

InterestThreshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

Estimation of flaring based on NOAA DMSP processing algorithm.

Lights are apportioned to individual sources.

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Contours and Centers Example

CA Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of

InterestThreshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

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Visual Inspection

CA Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of

InterestThreshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

Light Source Count

Flaring site 134

Ocean 20

Populated Place 58

Facility 23

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Sources

Atlas Polygons

GNS

Web Search

Populated Places

Regions of

Interest

Global Lights

Lights of

InterestThreshold

Contours

Assign to features

Local Maxima

Expand and

Combine

PrelimRegion

VisualInspection

Pixels of Interest

Light Information

Field Summary

Outputs

● Location Overview○ Google Earth KML file

● Facility Flaring TablesField Number

flaresNumber Pixels

Total Light Flaring [MCM]

Boscan 2 105 1020 27.13

Majnoon 1 470 8515 226.5

● All Light Sources○ Point data summaries

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● NOAA / Chris Elvidge○ DMSP processed files○ Flaring Algorithm and validation

● Google○ High resolution imagery○ Google Earth○ Fusion Tables

● Energy Atlas, NGA, Google, etc○ Facility Sources

Acknowledgements