- Booming in oil spill contingency planning. A guidance document for developing operational coastal estuarine booming plans in the United Kingdom
- Inland waters oil spill response: a guidance document incorporating the strategies and techniques for responding to inland surface water oil spills in the UK
- Operational guidelines on the use of oil spill dispersants at sea
- Planning for the use of oil spill dispersants
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Environment
We have all grown accustomed to the benefits brought about by accessing and using energy sources; however, through the exploitation of raw materials, production/generation and consumption of these energy sources there is potential to have an adverse impact on the environment.
The publications below are designed to address environmental issues pertinent to the industry and promote good environmental practice.
Environment videos
- A comparison of risks related to the storage of hydrocarbons in above-ground and underground tanks at petrol filling stations
- Ambient monitoring of benzo-a-pyrene (B[a]P) emissions at two oil refineries
- Code of practice for the investigation and mitigation of possible petroleum-based land contamination
- EI literature review. Biofuels - potential risks to UK water resources
- EI Research Report: A review of methods for estimating annual VOC emissions from refinery effluent water systems
- EI Research Report: Measurements of emissions to air of particulate matter (PM10), nickel and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at three UK oil refineries
- EI Research Report: Non CO2 greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries
- EI Research Report: Speciation of VOC emissions from UK oil refineries, Part 1 - Overview
- EI Research Report: Speciation of VOC emissions from UK oil refineries, Part 2 - Literature survey
- EI Research Report: Speciation of VOC emissions from UK oil refineries, Part 3 - Detailed experimental results
- EI Research Report: Speciation of VOC emissions from UK oil refineries - 3 volume set
- EI Research Report: Viability of using direct toxicity assessment for petroleum refinery effluent toxicity assessment
- Ethanol effects on the fate and transport of gasoline constituents in the UK
- Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards (EPAQs) discussion document on airborne particles: what is the appropriate measure on which to base a standard
- First Report of the UK National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution (NEGTAP)
- Guidance on characterising, assessing and managing risks associated with potentially contaminated sediments
- Guidelines for bunding of temporarily stored liquids offshore
- Introductory guidance on petroleum hydrocarbon soil vapour assessment
- Introductory guide to contaminated sediments
- Practical guidance on technologies for field-screening hydrocarbons and associated metals in soil and water
- Priority substances (and priority hazardous substances) sector contributions
- Protocol for the determination of the speciation of hydrocarbon emissions from oil refineries
- Protocol for the estimation of VOC emissions from petroleum refineries and gasoline marketing operations
- Protocol for the estimation of petroleum refinery process plant fugitive VOC emissions
- Reported and potential occurrence of ether oxygenates on water resources in the UK
- Review of COMEAP and IOM Reports on long term effects of particles
- Sector application guide for BS 7750: for oil refineries
- Soil vapour protocol for assessing hydrocarbon sites in the United Kingdom
- Sustainable drainage systems at petroleum installations
- Transboundary air pollution acidification, eutrophication and ground level ozone in the UK. Draft report of the National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution - March 2001. Response of the Institute of Petroleum
- UK National Air Quality Strategy (NAQS) guidance for the evaluation of Stage 3 reviews and an assessment of their potential effects on key industry installations
- UK oil refining and the atmospheric emission of dioxins. A briefing paper
- VOC emission control and its costs in the petrochemical sector. Impact of the 'Gothenburg' Protocol and National Emissions Ceilings Directive
- Recommended practices for CH4 emissions detection and quantification — combustion efficiency and flaring destruction
Other titles
- Best available techniques (BAT): Good practice for the oil and gas industry
- Environmental risk assessment of bulk storage facilities: a screening tool and its user guide
- Good operational practice on the management of subsea production control systems and associated hydraulic fluids
- Guidance on environmental management at filling stations
- Guidance on establishing a species and habitats baseline for the Environmental Damage/Liability Regulations 2009
- Guidance on managing environmental risks associated with land contamination at filling stations
- Guidance on risk assessment and conceptual design of tertiary containment systems for bulk storage of petroleum, petroleum products, or other fuels
- Guidance on the implications of Groundwater protection: principles and practice (GP3) on the refurbishment or redevelopment of petrol filling stations
- Guidance on petroleum hydrocarbon forensic chemistry for site investigation and remediation Volume 1
- Guidance on petroleum hydrocarbon forensic chemistry for site investigation and remediation Volume 2
- Guidance on the identification and assessment of contaminants of emerging concern in soil and groundwater at industrial sites
- Guide to predicting environmental recovery durations from major accidents. Supporting guide to the Environmental risk tolerability for COMAH establishments guideline
- Guidelines for the calculation of estimates of energy use and gaseous emissions in the decommissioning of offshore structures
- Guidelines for the identification and management of environmental barriers
- Guidelines on environmental management for facilities storing bulk quantities of petroleum, petroleum products and other fuels
- Introductory guide to environmental damage
- Remote telemetry for environmental monitoring of groundwater, ground gas and non-aqueous phase liquids
- Waste to products – Technology and economic assessment (phase 1)
- Model Code of Safe Practice Part 11: Bitumen safety code
- A New UK Approach: Development of vertical screening distances to support more sustainable assessment of the petroleum vapour intrusion pathway
- Energy retail station sites green guide: opportunities to contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Research Report: Embedding circularity into the construction and decommissioning of assets (Phase 1)
- Review of available tools and methodologies to calculate CO2 emissions of soil and groundwater management activities
- Circular economy indicators in the oil and gas industry