ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 52-60

Thermal impact on oil-producing areas of the Tomsk Region during associated gas flaring

М.N. Alekseeva 1 , I.G. Yashchenko 1 , T.O. Peremitina 1 
1 Institute of Petroleum Chemistry SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
Accepted: 24.08.2018
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-5-52-60
The paper deals with the problem of thermal impact on the oil field landscapes of the Tomsk Region during flaring of associated petroleum gas. Landsat 8 satellite images of the winter period are used to identify active flare booms and determine their thermal impact. The methodological issues of remote identification of flare booms operating in the territory of oil production and determination of area of thermal pollution zones using the data of changes in brightness temperature of the Earth’s surface within the range of flare booms are reported. The dependence of the change in the area of heat-affected zones on oil reserves and production for 12 oil fields of the Tomsk Region is established. Based on the data from Landsat thermal channels obtained in 2009, 2016, and 2017, analysis of changes in the areas of heat-affected zones at the Luginetskoye oil field is carried out. It is shown that the area of a heat-affected zone depends on oil production volume, amount of oil-dissolved gas, and methods of utilization of associated petroleum gas. The proposed approach can be used to monitor associated petroleum gas flaring and to assess the ecological state of oil field sites.
Keywords: thermal satellite images, geoinformation systems, oil fields, flare booms, associated petroleum gas flaring, heat affected zones
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