Full Title: GHG Emission Intensity of Crude Oil and Condensate Production
Author(s): ICF
Publisher(s): National Ocean Industries Association
Publication Date: May 8, 2023
Full Text: Download Resource
Description (excerpt):
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) commissioned ICF to perform this analysis to address the narrow technical question of how the GHG emission intensity of US oil production compares to those of oils produced around the world. This report does not address the various legal and policy questions related to whether such consideration of relative GHG emissions are required by law, what authority agencies have to conduct or mandate inquiries into GHG emissions, whether GHG emissions outside of the US can or should be considered, what mitigation measures can or should imposed by the agencies on project developers, how the GHG emissions once defined and estimated can or should be folded into an agency’s decision-making processes, etc.
The report is intended to be general in nature and does not address any specific federal or state agency or action that might cause a change in US crude supplies. However, the calculations presented in the report focus on the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM). This region is the focus because it is the region of greatest interest to NOIA’s members and because oil production there is mostly under federal authority and so decisions made by federal agencies can be expected to have large impacts.