Environmental and economic assessment of damage to atmospheric air from oil and gas production enterprises using the example of the Lena-Tunguska oil and gas province

Abstract

The existing global dependence on oil and gas raw materials gives rise to the constant development of new and improvement of existing technologies for the extraction and development of oil and gas fields. The extracted hydrocarbon raw materials are used to meet the needs of industrial production as well as domestic needs, still continuing to negatively affect the environment, forcing to modernize the methods of protection against anthropogenic impact. Today, the extraction of energy resources, especially oil and gas, is the source of about 90% of all types of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere. Due to the low utilization rate of the extracted raw materials, a significant part of them is irretrievably lost and enters the environment as pollutants. According to rough estimates, about 70% of all pollutants are in the atmosphere, with the main sources of air pollution located in the northern hemisphere. The aim of this work is to assess the environmental risk of oil and gas production. It is considered using the example of atmospheric pollution from enterprises in the Lena-Tunguska oil and gas province. We have established that the preparation of facilities at the Yarakta field causes a record damage to the air. The total economic damage to the atmospheric surface layer during construction work on the territories of the surveyed companies amounts to 33.1 thousand rubles.