Doctoral Dissertation Research: Organizational, Community, and State Regulatory Characteristics Influence on Venting and Flaring Rates of Texas Gas Wells.

博士论文研究：组织、社区和州监管特征对德克萨斯州气井放空和火炬率的影响。

• 批准号: 1702683
• 负责人: Theresa Morris
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1702683&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Organizational; Community

This project examines why some gas wells and operating companies vent and flare at a higher rate than others by testing hypotheses developed using the organizational political economy framework. Specifically, it analyzes how community, business, and state regulatory organizational characteristics at the branch plant (i.e., gas well) and central headquarters (i.e., operating company) level relate to Texas gas well flaring and venting rates in 2012. This project advances basic understandings of the way social organization influences industrial environmental pollution and waste of natural resources. The primary aim of this project is to assist business practitioners, state managers, and communities to better combat climate change, economic waste, and community health hazards by identifying the social structural factors related to venting and flaring practices in the natural gas production industry and making this information publicly available by publishing high-quality, mobile-friendly maps, presentations, and scientific and technical papers. Venting and flaring in the gas production industry are processes by which natural gas is extracted from a well and purposefully burned (i.e., flaring) or released or leaked into the air (i.e., venting), sometimes after first collecting the crude petroleum oil and associated gas extracted along with the natural gas. There is currently no systematic explanation for why some organizations in the natural gas production industry vent and flare natural gas at a higher rate than others. There is an urgent need to identify the social organizational structures associated with pollution and waste, so that organizations and public policies can be reorganized to better achieve environmental sustainability. This project will fill this need by testing several hypotheses developed using the organizational political economy of the environment framework. Hypotheses are tested by quantifying the relationship between Texas gas well venting and flaring rates in 2012, and organizational characteristics at the gas well and operating company level using multilevel statistical modeling. Statistical analysis will be conducted on a created dataset using Texas Railroad Commission, National Center for Charitable Statistics, United States Energy Information Administration, and United States Census Bureau data. Using the created dataset, this project will examine the characteristics of affected communities surrounding gas wells and develop high-quality, mobile-friendly maps of gas well venting and flaring rates and overlying business, community, and state regulatory organizational characteristics. By producing high quality maps, presentations, and papers, this project will increase public understanding of scientific knowledge regarding the relationship between social organizational structures and venting and flaring rates.

该项目通过测试使用组织政治经济学框架提出的假设，研究为什么一些气井和运营公司的排气和燃烧速度高于其他气井和运营公司。具体来说，它分析了分厂（即气井）和中央总部（即运营公司）层面的社区、企业和州监管组织特征与 2012 年德克萨斯州气井火炬燃烧和排放率之间的关系。该项目增进了对社会组织影响工业环境污染和自然资源浪费方式的基本理解。该项目的主要目的是帮助企业从业者、国家管理者和社区更好地应对气候变化、经济浪费和社区健康危害，方法是确定与天然气生产行业放空和燃烧实践相关的社会结构因素，并通过发布高质量、适合移动设备的地图、演示文稿和科技论文来公开这些信息。 天然气生产行业中的放空和燃烧是从井中提取天然气并有目的地燃烧（即燃烧）或释放或泄漏到空气中（即放空）的过程，有时是在首先收集与天然气一起提取的原油和伴生气之后。目前还没有系统的解释为什么天然气生产行业的一些组织排放和火炬天然气的比率高于其他组织。迫切需要确定与污染和废物相关的社会组织结构，以便重组组织和公共政策，以更好地实现环境的可持续性。该项目将通过测试使用环境框架的组织政治经济学提出的几个假设来满足这一需求。通过使用多级统计模型量化 2012 年德克萨斯州气井放空和火炬燃烧率之间的关系以及气井和运营公司层面的组织特征，对假设进行了检验。 将使用德克萨斯铁路委员会、国家慈善统计中心、美国能源信息管理局和美国人口普查局的数据对创建的数据集进行统计分析。使用创建的数据集，该项目将检查气井周围受影响社区的特征，并开发高质量、适合移动设备的气井通风和火炬率地图以及叠加的商业、社区和州监管组织特征。通过制作高质量的地图、演示文稿和论文，该项目将提高公众对有关社会组织结构与通风和燃烧率之间关系的科学知识的理解。