API Environmental Regulations & Spill Prevention Flashcards
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In the context of API environmental standards, 'secondary containment' for aboveground storage tanks is designed to hold:
Answer: At least 110% of the largest single tank volume within the containment area
EPA and API guidelines require secondary containment sized to hold at least 110% of the largest tank to capture a full-volume release plus precipitation.
Which Clean Air Act provision requires petroleum refineries to obtain Title V operating permits when they emit above major source thresholds?
Answer: Title V of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
Title V of the 1990 CAA Amendments established the major source operating permit program applicable to refineries and large petrochemical facilities.
What is the primary environmental concern addressed by API RP 2003 regarding static electricity in petroleum operations?
Answer: Preventing static-initiated fires and explosions during product transfer and tank gauging
API RP 2003 addresses the hazard of static electricity igniting flammable vapors during petroleum transfer, gauging, and sampling operations.
Under API and EPA guidance, a 'Facility Response Plan (FRP)' is required for onshore oil storage facilities that could cause:
Answer: Substantial harm to the environment by discharging oil into or on navigable waters
EPA requires FRPs under 40 CFR 112.20 for facilities that, due to their location or operations, could cause substantial harm through an oil discharge to navigable waters.
Which API publication guides operators in assessing and managing vapor cloud explosion (VCE) risk at petroleum processing facilities?
Answer: API RP 752 and API RP 753 (siting of occupied buildings)
API RP 752 and RP 753 address the siting and risk analysis of permanent and portable occupied structures relative to VCE and toxic release hazards.
The 'green completion' or reduced emissions completion (REC) technique required by EPA's NSPS Subpart OOOO primarily reduces:
Answer: Methane and VOC emissions during natural gas well completions by capturing flowback gas
EPA's NSPS OOOO/OOOOa requires reduced emissions completions to capture methane and VOCs from hydraulically fractured well flowback instead of venting or flaring.