Modern West Advisory Inc
20-ARPC-05
May 2023
Executive Summary
The magnitude of tank vent rates, the temporal nature of tank vents, the root cause of tank venting, the difference between actual vent rates and reported vent rates, and the viability of emerging technologies to detect and quantify tank vent rates, are not widely understood or known. Efforts to-date to close these knowledge and technology gaps have been with a relatively small sample size of facilities and tanks.
Jointly funded by CanERIC, CRIN, and PTAC AUPRF, Methods for Estimating Emissions from Tanks answered many of these questions. The study focused on uncontrolled oil production storage tanks at conventional oil and gas batteries in Central Alberta, noting that gas plants, oil sands, and heavy oil operations are out of scope.