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Supplementary information for: A road damage and life-cycle greenhouse gas comparison of trucking and pipeline water delivery systems for hydraulically fractured oil and gas field development in Colorado

dc.contributor.authorDuthu, Ray
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-23T19:14:09Z
dc.date.available2017-06-23T19:14:09Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionDepartment of Mechanical Engineering
dc.description.abstractThe process of hydraulic fracturing for recovery of oil and natural gas uses large amounts of fresh water and produces a comparable amount of wastewater, much of which is typically transported by truck. Truck transport of water is an expensive and energy-intensive process with significant external costs including roads damages, and pollution. The integrated development plan (IDP) is the industry nomenclature for an integrated oil and gas infrastructure system incorporating pipeline-based transport of water and wastewater, centralized water treatment, and high rates of wastewater recycling. These IDP have been proposed as an alternative to truck transport systems so as to mitigate many of the economic and environmental problems associated with natural gas production, but the economic and environmental performance of these systems have not been analyzed to date. This study presents an quantification of lifecycle GHG emissions and road damages of a generic oil and gas field, and of an oil and gas development sited in the Denver-Julesburg basin in the northern Colorado region of the US. Results demonstrate that a reduction in economic and environmental externalities can be derived from the development of these IDP-based pipeline water transportation systems. IDPs have marginal utility in reducing GHG emissions and road damage when they are used to replace in-field water transport, but can reduce GHG emissions and road damage by factors of as much as 6 and 7 respectively, when used to replace fresh water transport and waste-disposal routes for exemplar Northern Colorado oil and gas fields.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/181883
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25675/10217/181883
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.relation.isreferencedbyDuthu RC, Bradley TH (2017) A road damage and life-cycle greenhouse gas comparison of trucking and pipeline water delivery systems for hydraulically fractured oil and gas field development in Colorado. PLOS ONE 12(7): e0180587. https://hdl.handle.net/10217/182562
dc.subjectroad damage
dc.subjectlifecycle assessment
dc.subjectoil
dc.subjectgas
dc.titleSupplementary information for: A road damage and life-cycle greenhouse gas comparison of trucking and pipeline water delivery systems for hydraulically fractured oil and gas field development in Colorado
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