BRETON AEROMETRIC MONITORING PROGRAM (BAMP) EMISSION INVENTORY

摘要

The Offshore Operators Committee (OOC), which is comprised of 110 companies, awarded Walk Haydel a contract to collect and evaluate aerometric (meteorological and air quality) monitoring and emission inventory data in the Gulf of Mexico within 200 kilometers (km) of the Breton National Wilderness Area (BNWA). The wilderness area, a Class I string of barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi, is a federally protected bird and wildlife sanctuary. The Minerals Management Service (MMS) is requiring that all oil and gas companies operating on the Outer Continental Shelf within 100 km (200 km for the BAMP study) of BNWA gather relevant meteorological data. The OOC expanded the scope to include air quality and emission data. This presentation focuses on the emission inventory portion of the project and how the emission data will be used to evaluate the atmospheric dispersion modeling. Nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide are the parameters of interest from offshore sources because of their contribution to the increment consumption of BNWA.