Transcript Petroleum Sector Stream

Canada’s
Chemical Management Plan
Petroleum Sector Approach
Sound Management of Chemicals
Working Group – Stakeholder Meeting
April 1-2, 2009
Roger Keefe
Imperial Oil
Background
• CEPA’99 required prioritizing existing chemicals
inventory, the Domestic Substances List (DSL)
• 23,000 substances “Categorized” (1999-2006)
• Criteria: greatest potential for human exposure, persistence,
bioaccumulation and inherent toxicity
• 4300 substances required further evaluation
• CMP announced Dec/2006
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High priority substances assessments (2007-2010)
Medium priority substances assessments (2010-2018)
Low priority substances addressed by rapid screening
Many other CMP programs to assure risks are managed
CEPA’99 is the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, renewed in 1999
CMP is the Chemicals Management Plan
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Petroleum Sector Streams Approach
• Rationale for sector approach
– Large number of substances in the industry
– Complex mixtures
– Many substances mainly limited to sector
• Used for blending
• Captive use in extraction & refining
• Consumed as feedstocks and fuels
– Products & processes, when generic, allows:
• One govt interface with upstream (exploration & production)
• One govt interface with downstream (refining & distribution)
• Industry can work together
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High Priority Petroleum Substances in CMP
• Challenge Program
• ~60 / 200 Challenge substances for further assessment have
been linked with the petroleum sector plus other sectors
• Petroleum Sector Streams Approach
• ~160 substances have been identified specifically with the
Petroleum Sector for further assessment
– Health Canada & Environment Canada have a team
dedicated to the petroleum sector streams approach
– High priority petroleum substances to be assessed in
parallel to Challenge Program over 3 years
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High Priority Petroleum Substances in CMP
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Challenge Program (~60 / 200 substances):
– Information Gathering
• Challenge to industry to provide new information through a mandatory CEPA section 71
survey and a voluntary questionnaire
• 12 batches of 15-30 substances published every 3 months (Feb/2007 – Dec/2009)
– Screening Assessments
• To determine if each substance is “Toxic” as defined by section 64, CEPA’99
• A draft screening assessment report issued (in 6 months) & final report (6 months later)
– Risk Management
• For substances recommended for addition to the List of Toxic Substances (Schedule 1)
• Proposed risk management instrument must be proposed within 2 years and finalized within
an additional 18 months
Petroleum Sector Streams Approach (~160 substances)
– Information Gathering
• Using Mandatory Survey, contracts and voluntary information submissions
– Screening Assessments
• To determine if each substance is “Toxic” as defined by CEPA 1999
– Risk Management
• For substances recommended for addition to the List of Toxic Substances, identify
additional risk management requirements and develop risk managements instruments as
needed (same timeframe as above)
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Petroleum Sector - Data Collection
• Products in wide use (>16) - see slide 11
– These products from all producers are very similar
– Hazard & exposure data, current risk management requirements
& practices = largely in public domain
– Contractors collecting information
• Intermediate process streams (<145)
– Downstream industry – sec 71 “triage”  detailed surveys
• Canadian Petroleum Products Institute + upgraders + others
– Upstream industry – voluntary information provided
• Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
– CPPI drawing on other experience, e.g., API
– Contractor providing generic process information
For more on the Petroleum Sector Stream Approach, visit:
www.chemicalsubstanceschimiques.gc.ca/plan/petroleum-petrole_e.html
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Screening Assessment & Risk Management Approach may vary depending on fate of substance
~160 high-priority petroleum
substances
Still in commerce?
yes
manufactured or imported by the
petroleum sector?
manufactured or imported outside of the
petroleum sector?
yes
leaving facility?
yes
no
used by the petroleum sector?
yes
used by the public?
used in other
industrial sectors?
used elsewhere in the
petroleum industry?
petroleum
substance
moved within
petroleum
sector
petroleum
substance
used in
other
industry
sectors
Releases?
Uses?
used by other sectors?
= Possible substance specific approach?
site
limited
petroleum
substance
Hazards?
no
yes
yes
no
petroleum
substance
used by the
public
substance
not in
commerce
no
Existing RM?
substance of
which
petroleum
sector is one
of the users
substance
made
elsewhere but
used only by
the petroleum
sector
Additional RM
needed?
= Possible Group-based Approach?
substance not
manufactured
or used by
petroleum
sector
Alternatives?
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= Integrated with other sector work?
Petrochemicals
• Responsible Care® started in Canada, 1985 with
ethic & principles evolving into 6 codes:
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Community awareness & emergency response
Research & development
Manufacturing
Transportation
Distribution
Hazardous waste management
– Verification
– Improving performance
• Emissions ... Injuries ... Transportation accidents
– New: RC® “Our commitment to sustainability”
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Petroleum Sector Streams Approach: Status
• Working well – relationship & process for data collection
– Information sharing about petroleum processes, controls, what
industry can provide, and realistic timing
– Identification of key information needs, practical sec 71 survey
– Identify data sources, use of contractors
• Wait ‘n’ see – data collection / risk assessment
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Composition – variability
Drilling muds, additives (fuels, lubes)
“Mixtures” in screening assessments
Science based assessments vs precaution
• Challenges - risk management
– Gap identification
– Risk trade-off’s
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References
• Chemicals Management Plan, Government of Canada
– www.chemicalsubstanceschimiques.gc.ca
• Canadian Petroleum Products Institute (CPPI)
– www.cppi.ca (downstream petroleum industry association)
• Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)
– www.capp.ca (upstream petroleum industry association)
• Canadian Chemical Producers’ Association (CCPA)
– www.ccpa.ca (chemical industry association)
The author gratefully acknowledges Environment Canada & Health
Canada for their contributions to the information used in this presentation
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Petroleum Products in Wide Use
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Gasoline
Diesel fuel
Fuel oils no. 2, 4 & 6
Naphtha solvent, ligroine,
Stoddard solvent
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Lubricating oils
Petrolatum
Asphalt
Liquefied petroleum
gases (LPG)
• Others, to be identified
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Questions to address through information collection
~160 high-priority petroleum substances
1. still in commerce?
2a. extracted, produced/manufactured, purchased/imported
for use as feedstock by the petroleum sector?
2b. which part of the petroleum sector?
7. manufactured or imported
outside of the petroleum sector?
2c. where in the facility/on the site does the substance exist?
8a. used by
petroleum sector?
8b. by which part of the
petroleum sector?
3. leaving facility / site?
4. used by
the public?
5. used in other
industrial sectors?
10. releases?
from where, to
where, how
much
11. hazards?
properties of
substances
6. used elsewhere in
petroleum industry?
12. exposure
to the
substance?
9. used in other
sectors?
8c. where in the facility does
the substance exist?
13. existing
RM?
how are
substances
handled
14. are
there any
RM
gaps?
15. uses?
for what
purpose?
16. do
alternatives
exist ?
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