{"id":203,"date":"2016-03-22T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newvista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:03:19","slug":"bakken-air-quality-study-baqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/bakken-air-quality-study-baqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakken Air Quality Study (BAQS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:1.5em\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bakken formation contains billions of barrels of oil and gas trapped in rock and shale in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada.&nbsp; New horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing methods have allowed the exploitation of these deposits, leading to exponential growth in the production of oil in the region.&nbsp; Although oil is the primary commodity in the Bakken, there is also associated natural gas, much of which is flared, generating significant gaseous and particle emissions.&nbsp; There are also emissions from the support for drilling, operation, and maintenance of active wells.&nbsp; The rapid expansion of the oil and gas sector has the potential to significantly impact air quality at three national parks in the region: Fort Union Trading Post (FOUS), Knife River Indian Villages (KNRI), and Theodore Roosevelt National Park (THRO).&nbsp; There are also two U.S. Fish and Wildlife Class I areas nearby: Lostwood, ND, and Medicine Lake, MT (MELA).&nbsp; Growing concern about potential impacts of oil and gas development on air quality in these protected areas prompted a special study in February-April 2013 and November 2013-March 2014. &nbsp;The study was conducted at five field sites during the first measurement period: THRO north, THRO south, FOUS, KNRI, and MELA; and three sites during the second phase: THRO north, FOUS and MELA. The north unit of THRO served as the core sampling site, while the satellite sites provided a regional assessment of air quality.&nbsp; All sites included measurements of fine particulate matter and its composition, trace gases, wet deposition, and meteorology.&nbsp; During the second phase of the study, speciated VOC measurements also were made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/special-studies.jpg\" alt=\"special-studies\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Prenni2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oil and gas impacts on air quality in federal lands in the Bakken region: an overview of the Bakken Air Quality Study and first results<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prenni, A.J., D.E. Day, A.R. Evanoski-Cole, B.C. Sive, A. Hecobian, Y. Zhou, K.A. Gebhart, J.L. Hand, A.P. Sullivan, Y. Li, M.I. Schurman, Y. Desyaterik, W.C. Malm, J.L. Collett Jr. and B.A. Schichtel,&nbsp;<em>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics<\/em>, <strong>16<\/strong>, 1401-1416, doi:10.5194\/acp-16-1401-2016, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/improve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Evanoski-Cole2017Bakken.pdf\">Composition and sources of winter haze in the Bakken oil and gas extraction region<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evanoski-Cole, A.R, K.A. Gebhart, B.C. Sive, Y. Zhou, S.L. Capps, D.E. Day, A.J. Prenni, M.I. Schurman; A.P. Sullivan, Y. Li, J.L. Hand, B.A. Schichtel, and J.L. Collett, Jr., <em>Atmospheric Environment<\/em>, <strong>156<\/strong>, 77-87, doi: 10.1016\/j.atmosenv.2017.02.019, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/improve\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Gebhart2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visibility impacts at Class I areas near the Bakken oil and gas development<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kristi A. Gebhart, Derek E. Day, Anthony J. Prenni, Bret A. Schichtel, J.L. Hand &amp; Ashley R. Evanoski-Cole , <em>Journal of the Air &amp; Waste Management Association<\/em>, <strong>68<\/strong>:5, 477-493, doi:<br>10.1080\/10962247.2018.1429334,&nbsp;2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background The Bakken formation contains billions of barrels of oil and gas trapped in rock and shale in North Dakota, Montana, and Canada.&nbsp; New horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing methods have allowed the exploitation of these deposits, leading to exponential growth in the production of oil in the region.&nbsp; Although oil is the primary commodity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vista.cira.colostate.edu\/Improve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}