Flaring and Venting in the upstream Oil & Gas Sector - a regulatory update
The regulatory body in Alberta, Canada (ERCB) has published an update to Directive 60, formally named “Upstream Petroleum Industry Flaring, Incinerating and Venting”. The most recent edition is dated November 3, 2011. This document provides guidance to the owners, operators, designers and engineers of upstream flares, incinerators and vents. The aim is to eliminate or reduce flaring, venting and incinerating in order to ensure Alberta Ambient Air Quality Objectives (AAAQOs) are met and where required to meet health and safety objectives.
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Flare network simulation: Solving highly-looped systems in Flarenet
Refinery flare systems can be very complex, potentially allowing for the relief of hundreds of PSVs into a system composed of many laterals and headers routing flow to flare(s) or for routine flow possibly to a flare gas recovery unit.
A flare modeling application such as Aspen Flare System Analyzer (also known as "Flarenet") allows the user to model such systems, providing significant flexibility in terms of the size and scope of the model, as well as the scenarios which can be analyzed for that system
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