LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT ON OIL

AND GAS SEPARATION AT X

COMPANY USING OPENLCA 1.7.4
Salsabila Meike Isyukrilla
15513222
Background
Objectives and Benefits
Objectives
1. Conducting LCA on oil and
gas production at X company
Using OpenLCA 1.7.4
2. Finding out the improvement
recommendation from the LCA
for the company
Benefits
1. Decreasing the emission from
oil and gas production at X
company
2. Increasing the level of air
pollution management at the
company
3. Increasing company's PROPER
grade from Ministry of
Environment and Forestry.
Scope
 LCA FOR AIR POLLUTION PARTICULARLY GREENHOUSE GASES X
COMPANY
 GATE-TO-GATE
 1. GOAL AND SCOPE
2. INVENTORY ANALYSIS
3. IMPACT ANALYSIS
4. IMPROVEMENT
Research Flow
Oil Separation

Input Process Output

• Hydrocarbon fluids • Liquid hydrocarbon

• Fuel gas HP Separator • Gas
• Diesel • Emission

• Liquid Hydrocarbon • Crude oil

• Fuel gas LP Separator • Water discharge
• Diesel • Emission

• Crude oil
• Crude Oil Storage tank
• Emission
Gas Separation

Input Process Output

• Hydrocarbon fluids • Liquid hydrocarbon

• Fuel gas HP Separator • Gas
• Diesel • Emission

• Gas • Gas sell

• Fuel gas Glycol dehydrator • Gas remains
• Diesel • Emission

• Gas remains
Flaring • Emission
• Fuel gas
 Inventory Data (Oil Separation)

Oil Separation
Process 1: Separation 1 (HP Separator)
Input Units Amount Process Output Unit Amount
Hydrocarbon
Bbls 15,898,178.14 Hydrocarbon liquid Bbls 2,534,590.82
fluids
Fuel Gas TOE 32,609.98 Separation 1 Gas TOE 2,039,654.19
Diesel kiloliter 133.16 (HP Separator) CO2 kg 42,951,509.00
CH4 kg 3,431.57
N2O kg 6,551.83
 Inventory Data
Input Units Amount Process Output Unit Amount
Nox kg 104,506.96
Separation 1
Sox kg 1,208.91
(HP Separator)
VOC kg 46,655.17
Process 2: Separation 2 (LP Separator)
Input Units Amount Process Output Unit Amount
Hidrocarbon liquid Bbls 2,534,590.82 Crude Oil bbls 552,894.57
Fuel Gas TOE 32,609.98 Water discharge bbls 1,981,696.25
Diesel kiloliter 133.16 CO2 kg 42,951,509.00
Separation 2 (LP CH4 kg 3,431.57
Separator) N2O kg 6,551.83
Nox kg 104506.96
Sox kg 1208.91
VOC kg 46655.17
Process 3: Storage (Storage tank)
Input Units Amount Process Output Unit Amount
Storage
Crude Oil Bbls 552,894.57 (Storage tank) Crude Oil Bbls 552,894.57
 Inventory Data (Gas Separation)
Gas Separation
Process 1: Separation 1 (HP Separator)
Input Units Amount Process Output Unit Amount
Hydrocarbon fluids Bbls 15,898,178.14 Hydrocarbon liquid Bbls 2,534,590.82
Fuel Gas TOE 32,609.98 Gas TOE 2,039,654.19
Diesel kiloliter 133.16 CO2 kg 42,951,509.00
Separation 1 CH4 kg 3,431.57
(HP Separator) N2O kg 6,551.83
Nox kg 104,506.96
Sox kg 1,208.91
VOC kg 46,655.17
Process 2: Gas Purification (Glycol Dehydrator)
Input Units Amount Process Output Unit Amount
Gas TOE 2,039,654.19 Gas sell TOE 2,039,654.19
Gas Purification
Fuel Gas TOE 3,083.55 Gas remains TOE 357,902.63
(Glycol
Triethylene glycol liter 14600 CO2 kg 130,466.41
Dehydrator)
CH4 kg 270,801.69
 Inventory Data
Process 3: Gas combustion (flaring)

Input Units Amount Proses Output Units Amount

Gas remains TOE 357,902.63 CO2 kg 40,276,879.25

Fuel Gas TOE 16,262.90 N2O kg 1,249.97

Gas combustion
(flaring) CH4 kg 540,111.41
Nox kg 23,147.63
Sox kg 197.53
VOC kg 231,476.32
openLCA 1.7.4 Result

Impact category Gas Separation Oil Separation Unit

Climate change - GWP100 2.08438e+7 3.44920e+8 kg CO2 eq.
Eutrophication - generic 3.40166e+2 1.35609e+4 kg PO4--- eq.
Photochemical oxidation - high Nox 4.86551e+3 1.57943e+2 kg ethylene eq.
Climate change – GWP 100
Eutrophication - generic
Photochemical oxidation – High NOx
Process Contribution Result (Climate change)
Process Contribution Result (Eutrophication)
Process Contribution Result (Photochemical
oxidation)
Relative result

Impact
Normalization

Impact category Gas Separation Oil separation

Climate change - GWP100 4.92885e-7 8.15619e-6
Eutrophication - generic 2.51417e-9 1.00229e-7
Photochemical oxidation - high Nox 5.07551e-8 1.64665e-9
Normalization in chart

Impact
 Improvement

1
Biofuels
(Agus, 2008) 3

2
Biodiesel addition to diesel Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
(Setiadji & Susiantini, 2008) (Jensen, 2018)
Conclusion
 In one year, X company produced 552,894.57 bbls crude oil and
2,039,654.19 TOE natural gas, emitted greenhouse gases and led to:
- Climate change – GWP 100 that equals to 365,763,800.00 kg CO2 eq.
- Eutrophicaiton – generic that equals to 13,901.07 kg PO4 eq.
- Photochemical oxidation – higher NOx that equals to 5.023.45 kg
ethylene eq.
 Improvement: Biodiesel as diesel substitution, biodiesel addition to
diesel, and enhanced oil recovery
Suggestion
 Company commitment to conduct LCA
 The improvement need to be analyzed both for the efficiency and
material benefits
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