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Air Emissions Inventories

Oil and Gas 101 (2017 EIC)

This course is for stakeholders interested in learning about the types of sources and emissions that may occur at upstream oil and gas exploration and production sites and those interested in using the Nonpoint Oil and Gas Emission Estimation Tool to compile an emissions inventory for source category.

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Oil and Gas 101: An Overview of Oil and Gas Upstream Activities and Using EPA’s Nonpoint Oil and Gas Emission Estimation Tool for the 2017 NEI (PDF)(113 pp, 6 MB, 8/15/2017, J. Snyder, R. Oommen, and M. Pring)