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Oil And Gas Monitor: Monitor Noise Particles, and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).

• Home - MODEL Software Home page.
• Main - Oil and Gas Monitor Home page (this page).
  This web site is independent of the driller, producer and Broomfield County. You are welcome to copy anything.

Pawnee Grasslands At Midnite -- Credit and permission: James W Cole

Link: https://www.modelsw.com/OilGasMonitor/PawneeGrasslandsAtMidnite.jpg
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One is hard pressed to see the stars because of all the flares from the oil and gas drilling that light up the night.

• Define - Used to define the development and location of an independent "Citizen" monitor.
• Map - Real-time Google map.
  This is independent real-time monitoring of VOCs, particles, and sound levels. The intent is to keep the driller and producer honest in their committment to low noise, particles, and VOCs. The data (defined above) is sent to a server each minute and displayed along with other monitors on Google Maps. The markers shown on the maps display I (information), W (warning), or A (alarm) and are updated with each refresh of the map. When clicked they display the last known data for the monitor inputs. A plot button displays the last 24 hours for the monitor selected.
• Data
  The easiest way to get monitor data is click on the map. Then click on a location. Then click on plot. It offers a link at the top of the page: Download to monitor.csv file. Click on the link. The default data is the last 24 hours. You can change the Start and End dates YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM. Then click the Submit button. It builds a file monitorxx.csv (where xx is the location you clicked). click the link: CLICK TO DOWNLOAD monitorxx.csv. Look for the file in your download folder. You can load the csv file in Excel and build other plots. Or duplicate the plots that exist on the Plot page with more detail. Examples are shown in the data page.
• Map Auto Refresh - Real-time Google map.
  This is the same map as above but set to Auto Refresh -- Requires Cookies and may not work for you
  Scroll (DON'T Drag) the map down to view four imputs:
  1) Refresh check box; 2) a text box for Minutes between refresh; 3) a Warning check box; and 4) Alarm check box;
  When refresh is checked, it updates the map at the Minutes rate entered in minutes box. When Warning is checked, if any last known value was Information and the current value is Warning a beep will sound. When Alarm is checked, if any last known value was Information or Warning and the current value is Alarm a double beep will sound. If Warning and Alarm are not checked, the markers will still change to the new values but will do so silently. These Options (stored in Cookies) will change to their defaults of false and 60 minutes after one month or if you have disabled cookies. When they time out, you will need to reset them.

• Sheridan Pad
  Items common with all studies are: Using 42 well configuration. This is not current but that is what is available. Using the EPA AERMOD model. Site data is hourly 2016 data. Erie Airport surface (Wind speed, Direction, Temperature). Stapleton Airport upper air from twice daily balloons. Using an average of Urban and Desert shrubland for Albedo (surface radiation reflection), and Bowen Ratio (surface heat to roughness).
  Enter the Study number and Month or 0 for full year.
  See Output for different Studies.
• Sheridan Pad Cartesian
  Uses Sheidan Pad but Cartesian coordinates. 3000 meter square with 50 meter spacing.
  The main purpose was to show the high concentrations during the winter and it clearly does with study 203.
  What it definately shows is AERMET Surface weather affects the model.
  All three studies (203, 303, and 403) use fracking emissions at 29 g/sec for a full year.
  All three use the identical AERMOD model.
  And all three use Stapleton Upper Air.
  VOC Concentration in Study 303 is 20 times greater than 203, and Study 403 is 10 times greater than 203.
  Study 203 Uses AERMET Erie Airport surface weather and Stapleton upper air for 2016. See Output: StudySheridanAreaDffCart.TXT
  Study 303 Uses AERMET Fort Saint Vrain surface weather and Stapleton upper air for 2009. See Output: StudySheridanAreaDffCart_STD.TXT
  Study 403 Uses AERMET Fort Saint Vrain Adjusted surface weather and Stapleton upper air for 2009. See Output: StudySheridanAreaDffCart_ADJ.TXT
  AERMET data for Studies 303 and 403 were provided by CDPHE (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment). CDPHE provided me the same data they provided to the company SLR http://slrconsulting.com/na/ that modeled two potential Oil and Gas Pads (Lowell and Sheridan) for Broomfield. The data set consists of 8760 hours of surface and upper air meteorological parameters.
  I believe Sheridan Pad Cartesian Study 403 could be used sucessfully to compare fracking with the report from SLR.
  Emmett Malone of CDPHE said, "I believe this (FSV 2009) meteorological data set is the most representative of the meteorological data sets available for the locations provided. The National Weather Service sites along the front range typically have too high a percentage of calms, have limited hours of operation, and do not archive 1-minute data. All these items make the data inappropriate to use in dispersion modeling. It is believed that the Ft St Vrain data is the best meteorological data available for dispersion modeling at the provided sites."
  I dissagree with Emmet Malone. He is correct in statement, "The National Weather Service sites along the front range typically have a high percentage of calms." But one should not replace a calm area with a windy area. Study 403 shows the same results as SLR for Sheridan but that doesn't make it right. I trust Study 203 because it uses Broomfield surface weather. You can choose. I prefer Study 203 because with it I can justify: "Limit drilling, fracking, and flowback from May through August between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm." Please see "Broomfield Gas PowerPoint" (below) p.23.
• FourPads - This models Lowell Pad 29 wells, Sheridan Pad 26 wells, United and Huron pads each 42 wells. with a 8 month break after Sheridan. The Drilling, Fracking, and Flowback are in Black and Production in Red. With 72 months of data. I added a Marker at Prospect Ridge Academy with details and Totals which monitors all four pads. The drill frack flowback Option: TTTTTTTTTT and production Option: TTTTTTTT are set true for each of the products (contaminants). Click on a Circle or the Academy and see the list. To limit the list replace any T with an F. You can change the Losses fraction. The default 0.0047... comes from a CSU Study. The Front Range should be below 0.02 or the driller needs to get a permit to exceed it from the Colorado Health Department. Elsewhere in Colorado 0.05 is allowed.
  Spreadsheet - Pressures Volumes Flows for FourPads and Pipelines (below).
  Broomfield Gas PowerPoint
  Spreadsheet - Concentrations at Four Pads
  Spreadsheet - ConcentrationsAtProspectRidge.xlsx
• FivePads - This is a work in progress. This models Lowell Pad 29 wells, Sheridan Pad 19 wells, United pad 21 wells, and Huron pad 30 wells. A fifth pad Coyote is in Weld County and has 40 wells. The total well count is the same as the 4 pad.
  Spreadsheet - Pressures Volumes Flows for Five Pads.
  Broomfield Gas PowerPoint 5 pads
  
• Output - The EPA aermod output data text data files (Same number: Study1, ...., Study5) )
• Pipelines - A Study to calculate offset as a function of pressure and pipe size. I recommend pipelines be studied before or in conjunction with drilling pad locations and well count.
• Summary - A summary of Broomfield Gas. But it does not draw any conclusions. You can see recommendations in the PowerPoint presentation.
• Support Grace Hood of Colorado Public Radio with these two spreadsheets:
  Spreadsheet - GDP By Industry
  Spreadsheet (CSV) - Jobs by Sector
  
• Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has a database from 1999 to current for Oil and Gas Production
  I rolled that data up into two spreadsheets:
  CogccGasProduction2000-2018.xlsx (232K bytes)
  CogccGasProduction2000-2018Full.xlsx with More Detail than you want (27.9M bytes).
  

  Governor elect Jared Polis wants to be 100 percent renewable by 2040.
  You can’t just go up to that date and stop oil and gas.
  You need to move the drilling distance back now.
  The existing production will continue.
  We need to make Proposition 112 a county vote not a state vote.

  The Graph:
  

• Freeform Query - for analysis of the tables and data.
  This allows you to analyze or modify the data. (Use MySQL valid queries.)
  
• Tables - Underlying Tables Supporting the Oil and Gas Database.
  
• Load Monitor - Updates Monitor.

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