Refinery Effluent Assessment Proposal 200706 to the Petroleum Environmental Research Forum PERF Exxo

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Refinery Effluent AssessmentProposal
2007-06 to thePetroleum Environmental Research
Forum (PERF)ExxonMobil October 2007 PERF
Meeting
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Drivers, Challenges, and Project Benefits

• Regulatory Drivers
• European Water Framework Directive (WFD)
• European Pollutant Release Transfer Register
  (EPRTR)
• Oslo-Paris Commission for the Protection of the
  Marine Environment
• Challenges
• Facilities required to monitor effluent report
  emissions of specific EPRTR WFD substances
  limited data for effluent characterization to
  date
• Standardization of sampling practices, analytical
  test methods, and reporting parameters
• Notify and educate the refinery network on
  effluent quality requirements
• No consistent set of effluent quality data across
  refinery network
• PERF Project Benefits
• Opportunity for refineries to benefit from
  industry-sponsored program
• Use of reliable, consistent, analytical methods
• Data set for benchmarking and prioritization of
  effluent quality
• Leverage petroleum refining industry research
• Identify substances of regulatory concern that
  are not present in refinery effluents to provide
  basis to preclude future routine monitoring
• Identify substances of regulatory concern that
  are detected and are the focus of regulation
  and/or emission reductions
• Comprehensive refinery effluent database of PRTR
  substances and refinery data (e.g. crude slate,
  size, type, treatment facilities)
• Proactively demonstrate petroleum industrys
  commitment to water quality improvement

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Proposed Plan

• Phased Approach With Conservation of Clean Air
  Water in Europe (CONCAWE)
• PHASE I II CONCAWE led project (no PERF
  involvement) on sampling practices and analytical
  test methods for focus substances
• PHASE III PERF project on refinery effluent data
  assessment
• Detailed plan on well known substances with
  existing test methods
• Further activity on difficult substances
• Conduct survey of refinery effluents
• Focus on constituents of EU regulatory concern
• Apply consistent, sensitive, state-of-science
  analytical methods from PHASE I II
• Metals (e.g. Ag, As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Pb, Hg, Ni,
  V, Zn)
• Organics (e.g. BTEX, PAHs, Phenols, Alkyl
  Phenols, Solvents)
• Conventional parameters (e.g. TSS, pH,
  Conductivity, TN, TP)
• Ensure representation across refinery types,
  size, crude slate, and treatment facilities.

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Proposed Schedule

• DRAFT proposal submitted for comments
• Teleconference conducted with interested parties
• Scope Contract Development - underway
• PERF Meeting update on proposal / status of
  project (Oct 07)
• Contract negotiation (4Q07)
• CONCAWE Phase I Results (1Q08)
• CONCAWE Phase II Results (2Q08)
• Refinery effluent collection (2Q08)
• Effluent parameter testing by lab using Phase I
  results (mid/late 2Q08)
• Data analysis (2/3Q08)
• Report results, publish paper (34Q08)

Accelerated effort to provide results to industry
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Questions?

• Contact
• Frank Kerze
• frank.j.kerze_at_exxonmobil.com
• Telephone [phone]
• eFax [phone]
• Chad Shockley
• chad.e.shockley_at_exxonmobil.com
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]