NATURAL ATTENUATION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS

Chair: Lisa Gieg, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

• Linking Geochemical and Microbiological Approaches to Assess Natural Attenuation Processes: Examples from 20 Years of Research in a Crude-Oil Contaminated Aquifer Near Bemidji, MN
  Isabelle Cozzarelli, USGS, Reston, VA
  
• In Situ Rates of Hydrocarbon Biotransformation in a Gas Condensate Impacted Aquifer
  Lisa M. Gieg, University of Oklahoma; Rob Alumbaugh, Jennifer Field, Jesse Jones, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Joseph Suflita, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  
• Natural Attenuation of PAHs and Heterocyclic Organics in Groundwater: 10 Years of Experience with a Controlled Field Experiment
  Jim Barker, Michelle Fraser and Fred Blaine, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Caitlin Cooke, Golder Associates Ltd., Kanata, Ontario, Canada
  
• Evidence for Hydrocarbon Destruction Linked to Sulfate Reduction at a Former Petroleum RefinerMatthew Zenker and Gaylen R. Brubaker, The RETEC Group, Inc., Durham, NC; Joseph Suflita, Victoria A. Parisi and Lisa Gieg, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  
• Emerging and Under Utilized Assessment Technologies for Determining Degradation Rates for In Situ Natural Attenuation Capacity
  Eric J. Raes, Engineering and Land Planning Assoc., Inc., Clinton, NJ; Kerry Sublette, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Jack Istok, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Aaron Peacock, Universityof Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Greg Davis, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN
  
• Assessment of In Situ Biodegradation Potential of Benzene Using 13C-Labeled Benzene and BioSep ® Beads
  J.L. Busch-Harris, Eleanor Jennings, Zhong Zhong, and K.L. Sublette, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; D.C. White and Aaron Peacock, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Greg Davis, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN; William E. Holmes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Ravi Kolhatkar, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Houston, TX; Xiaomin Yang, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Stable Isotope Analysis in Remediation of Gasoline Oxygenates and Hydrocarbons
  Tomasz Kuder and Paul Philp, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Natural Attenuation of Gasoline Hydrocarbons in Water
  Roger C. Prince and Thomas F. Parkerton, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc., Annandale, NJ
  

LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES

• Quantifying Lease Stipulation Impacts on Federal Resource Accessibility
  David Alleman, U.S. DOE/NETL, Tulsa, OK; John R. Duda, U.S. DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV; William Hochheiser, U.S. DOE/Fossil Energy, Washington, DC; Jeffrey Eppink,Advanced Resources International, Inc., Arlington, VA
  
• The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) Cumulative Phase II Inventory: Sound Science to Support Energy Policy
  Jeffrey Eppink, Advanced Resources International, Inc., Arlington, VA; Richard Watson, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC; Robert Johnson, Premier Data Services, Denver, CO
  
• Railroad Commission of Texas Voluntary Cleanup Program: New Tools and Examples of Successful Cleanups
  Aimee Beveridge, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin, TX
  
• Tremors in the Cooperative Environmental Federalism Arena
  Markus G. Puder, Argonne National Laboratory, Washington, DC; Michael J. Paque, Ground Water Protection Council, Oklahoma City, OK
  
• Environmental Regulatory Constraints to Natural Gas Production
  Deborah Elcock, Argonne National Laboratory, Washington, DC
  
• Environmental Issues in Real Estate Transactions and New CERCLA Developments
  Ann R. Barker, Baker Petrolite Corporation, Sugar Land, TX
  
• New SPCC Integrity Test Requirements for Storage Containers and Tanks
  Kevin Kupitz, TCI Services, Inc., Tulsa, OK
  
• EPA Brownfields Program – Petroleum Grant Information and Guidance
  Casey Luckett Snyder, U.S. EPA Region 6, Dallas, TX
  

DRILLING WASTE MANAGEMENT / FUGITIVE AIR EMISSIONS

DRILLING WASTE MANAGEMENT

• The Application of a Salt-free High Performance Water Base Mud for Minimizing Environmental Impact in the Oriente Ecuadorian Basin
  Mario A. Ramirez, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, Houston, TX; Pablo Benalcazar, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, Quito, Ecuador; Diego Paz, Baker Hughes Drilling Fluids, Houston, TX
  
• Aspects of Computer Programs that Address Drilling Waste Management
  William A. Piper, Piper Consulting, Stafford, TX; Catalin Ivan, M-I Swaco, Houston, TX; James B. Bloys, Chevron Corp., Houston, TX; Carole Fleming, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX
  
• Cementing Additives for Use in Environmentally Sensitive Regions
  Samuel J. Lewis, Michael Szymanski and John M. Wilson, Halliburton Energy Services, Duncan, OK
  
• Optimizing Fluid Choices for Landfarm Applications
  Simon Seaton and John Hall, Halliburton Baroid Fluid Services, Houston, TX
  
• Closed Loop Solids Handling Systems
  Lary Parker, Controlled Recovery, Inc., Hobbs, NM
  

FUGITIVE AIR EMISSIONS

• Use of Hildebrand Solubility Parameters for the Correlation of Emissions from Stock Tank Crude Oils
  Robert E. Babcock, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; Jorge M. Plaza, Trinity Consultants, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA
  
• Benzene Emissions Control for Area Sources Triethylene Glycol Dehydrators
  George Holliday, Holliday Environmental Services, Inc., Bellaire, TX
  
• Optimized Production of Biodiesel Fuel from Low Cost Feedstock, and its Potential Impact on Diesel Engine Exhaust Emissions
  Brian Mattingly, Ed Clausen and Michael Popp, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  
• Safety Considerations for Installing Flow and Level Instrumentation in Oil Storage Tanks
  Wayne Shannon, Magnetrol, Downers Grove, IL; Randy Webb, Myers-Aubrey, Tulsa, OK
  

PRODUCED WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT

• Economic Handling of Oilfield Produced Waters Using a Combined Biological Treatment and Phytoremediation System
  Muralikrishnan Erat and John N. Veenstra, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  
• Overview of Regulations for Potential Beneficial Use of Oilfield Produced Water in California
  Raymond Ouellette, Rajagopalan Ganesh and Lawrence Y.C. Leong, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, Irvine, CA
  
• Further Advances in Produced Water De-Oiling Utilizing a Technology That Removes and Recovers Dispersed Oil in Produced Water Two Microns and Larger
  M.J. Plebon, Marc A. Saad and Serge Fraser, EARTH ( Canada) Corporation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  
• Chemical Conditions Impacting the Removal Efficiency of Hg and Other Toxic Trace Metals from Wastewater
  Carl E. Hensman, Frontier Geosciences, Inc., Seattle, WA
  
• Diagnosing Chemical and Mechanical Problems with Produced Water Treating Systems
  Ted Frankiewicz, Joseph Lee and Chang-Ming Lee, Natco Group, Houston, TX
  
• Generalized Models for Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Predictions
  Khaled Gasem, D. Ravindranath, S.S. Godavarthy and R.L. Robinson, Jr., Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

POSTER SESSION

• Assessing Soil Ecosystem Recovery Following Managed and Unmanaged Bioremediation
  Dan Weber, Eleanor Jennings, and Kerry Sublette, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Greg Thoma, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Remediation of a Historic Brine Scar: Characterization and Development of a Remediation Protocol
  Shoeb Munshi, Kerry Sublette, Eleanor Jennings, Ken Roberts, J. Berton Fisher, and Bryan Tapp, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Economic Handling of Oilfield Produced Waters Using a Combined Biological Treatment and Phytoremediation System
  Muralikrishnan Erat and John N. Veenstra, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  
• Tracking the Fate and Recycling of 13C Hexadecane in a Captina Silt Loam
  Jill A. Baird, K.M. Greer, S.E. Ziegler, G.J. Thoma, K.J. Davis and D.C. Wolf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  
• Biosurfactant Production and Their Application in Enhanced Petroleum Hydrocarbon Remediation
  Thu Nguyen, Noha Youssef, Michael McInerney and David Sabatini, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Assessing Phytoremediation of a Crude Oil-Contaminated Soil Using Nematode Diversity and Maturity Indices
  Mary C. Savin, P.J. Tomlinson, K. Karim, G.J. Thoma, K.J. Davis and D.C, Wolf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  
• Controlling Soil Sodicity During Irrigation with CBNG Produced Water
  Dina E. Brown and Kevin C. Harvey, KC Harvey, L.L.C., Bozeman, MT
  
• Proposing an Environmentally Friendly Welltesting Method for Iranian Oil Fields
  Shahin Kord, National Iranian Oil Company, Ahwaz, Iran
  
• Characterization of Three Creosotes with Environmental Forensic Purposes
  Luis Torres, M.G. Urquiza and R. Iturbe, UNAM, Mexico DF, Mexico
  
• Catalytic Cracking of Straight-Run Diesel Fractions (200-360 oC) of Tamsagbulag and Zuunbayan Oils, Mongolia
  Adiya Sainbayar, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; A.V. Vosmerikov, Tomsk Institute of Petroleum Chemistry, Tomsk, Russia
  
• Comparison of Individual Hydrocarbons Composition of Gasoline Fractions Between Tamasgbulag and Zuunbayan Oils, Mongolia
  Adiya Sainbayar, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaastar, Mongolia; A.V. Vosmerikov, Tomsk Institute of Petroleum Chemistry, Tomsk, Russia
  
• Earthworms as Ecoengineers in the Restoration of Oil and Brine-Impacted Soils Following Remediation
  Nitya Alahari, Kerry Sublette and Eleanor Jennings, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Greg Thoma and Duane Wolf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; Kathleen Duncan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Mac A. Callaham, Jr., USDA-Forest Service, Athens, GA; Tim Todd, Kansas StateUniversity, Manhattan, KS
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Assessment of In SituBiodegradation Potential of Benzene Using 13C-Labeled Benzene and BioSep ® Beads
  J.L. Busch-Harris, Eleanor Jennings, Zhong Zhong, and K.L. Sublette, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; D.C. White and Aaron Peacock, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Greg Davis, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN; William E. Holmes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Ravi Kolhatkar, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Houston, TX; Xiaomin Yang, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Hypothesis of a Natural Brine Pump Causing Persistent Brine Scars in the Tallgrass Prairie, Oklahoma
  Courtney Busse-Jones, Vanessa Andrews, Melissa Barton, Teko Blanchard, Kaitlin Beam, Chelsea Coleman, Jenny Hironaga, Daniel Weber, Aaron Palke, Bryan Tapp and Winton Cornell, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Kate Key, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN; Sara Prior, University of Arkansas-Monticello, Monticello, AR
  
• Trace Element Compositions of Brine Impacted Soils and Produced Water in Osage County, Oklahoma
  Dan Weber, Eleanor Jennings, Kerry Sublette, Ken Roberts, and Bryan Tapp, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
  

GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION

• A Field Study of Pulsed Air Sparging for Remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil and Groundwater
  Xiaomin Yang, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL; Craig Niedermeier, The RETEC Group, Inc., Austin, TX; Dennis Beckmann, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Tulsa, OK; Stephanie Fiorenza, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Houston, TX
  
• Application of Denitrification-Based Bioremediation (DBB) for In SituBioremediation of Sorbed-Phase Hydrocarbons and Source Areas
  Eric Hince, Geovation Technologies, Inc., Florida, NY
  
• Transport of Nano-C60 Particles in Soil
  Mason B. Tomson, Xuekun Cheng, and Amy T. Kan, Rice University, Houston, TX
  
• In Situ Treatment of Chromate in Groundwater by the Injection of Soluble Carbon Reagents
  David B. Vance and Steve Tischer, ARCADIS, Midland, TX
  
• Arsenic Removal on Magnetite Nanoparticles from Groundwater
  Mason Tomson, Sujin Yean, Cafer T. Yavuz, Amy T. Kan, and Vicki Colvin, Rice University, Houston, TX; Lili Cong, Champion Technologies, Houston, TX
  
• Modeling of LNAPL Distribution and Recovery at a Former Refinery Site
  Tie Li, URS Corporation, Houston, TX; Xiaomin Yang, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL
  

NPDES AND BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

• STRONGER Guidance for State Stormwater/Erosion Control Measures at Oil and Gas Sites
  Patricia Billingsley, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma City, OK
  
• EPA NPDES Construction Stormwater Rules and Regulations Update for Upstream Oil and Gas Operators
  Casey Luckett Snyder, US EPA Region 6, Dallas, TX
  
• NPDES Permits for Oil and Gas Stormwater
  Janet McQuaid, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., Austin, TX
  
• EPA Should Not Apply Storm Water Permit Requirements to Drill Site Construction
  George Holliday, Holliday Environmental Services, Inc., Bellaire, TX
  
• Effects of EPA Storm Water Permitting on US Oil and Gas Exploration
  Walter Mayfield, Goldston Oil Corporation, Houston, TX
  
• Reasonable and Prudent Practices for Stabilization of Oil and Gas Construction sites (RAPPS)
  Marilyn Fish, EOG Resources, Inc., Houston, TX
  
• Stormwater Management and Site Restoration, an Integral Component of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in Pennsylvania
  Ronald P. Gilius, Melissa L. Hack-Becker and Joseph Umholtz, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg, PA
  
• Best Management Practices for Oil and Gas Development on Public Lands
  Rebecca Hunt, Department of the Interior/BLM, Carlsbad, NM
  

CHARACTERIZATION AND REMEDIATION OF BRINE IMPACTED SOIL AND GROUNDWATER

• Geologic Controls on Surface and Subsurface Produced Water Movement at the OSPER “A” Site, Skiatook Lake, Osage County, Oklahoma
  James K. Otton, Robert A. Zielinski, USGS, Lakewood, CO; Marvin M. Abbott, USGS, Oklahoma City, OK
  
• Trace Element Compositions of Brine Impacted Soils and Produced Water in Osage County, Oklahoma
  Dan Weber, Eleanor Jennings, Kerry Sublette, Ken Roberts, and Bryan Tapp, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
  
• Impacts of Produced-Water Releases on Ground Water: Results from the OSPER Sites, Osage County, Oklahoma
  Yousif K. Kharaka and William N. Herkelrath, USGS, Menlo Park, CA; Bruce D. Smith and Robert Zielinski, USGS, Lakewood, CO, Marvin M. Abbott, USGS, Oklahoma City, OK
  
• Investigation of Select Saltwater Impacts
  William Renfro, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin, TX
  
• Case Study of Integrated Approach to the Cleanup of Ogallala Groundwater Impacted by Oilfield Brine, Haskell County, Kansas
  Kevin Hopson and Al Potter, Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Lubbock, TX; Michael Jacobs, Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc., Midland, TX; Neil Blandford, Daniel B. Stephens & Associates, Inc., Albuquerque, NM
  
• Restoration of Brine and Oil Contaminated Marshlands by Cationic Exchange and Chemical-Biological Stabilization
  Randy H. Adams, J. Abisenas Alvarez R., Conrado Tinal O. and Francisco J. Guzman O., Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco, Villahermosa Tabasco, Mexico
  
• Isolation and Characterization of a Halophile that Degrades Benzene and Toluene as the Sole Carbon and Energy Source
  Babu Z. Fathepure and Carla A. Nicholson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  

POLLUTION PREVENTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT I

• Findings from CSB Investigations into the BP Texas Oil Refinery Vapor Cloud Explosion
  Gary Visscher, Francisco Altamirano, Johnnie Banks, Hillary Cohen, Don Holmstrom, Bill Hoyle, Giby Joseph, Mark Kaszniak, Cheryl Mackenzie and Stephen Wallace, U.S.Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigations Board, Washington, D.C.
  
• Effects of Deep Subsurface Carbon Dioxide Injection on Microbial Communities in the Frio Formation, Texas
  Susan Pfiffner, Amanda Smithgall, Andrew Parson and Margaret Gan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Dave Riestenberg and Tommy Phelps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
  
• Best Practices in Integrated Subcontractor Management to Elevate EHS Performance in the Petroleum Industry
  James J. Colbert, The RETEC Group, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; Jessica Cassens and Daniel Anguiano, The RETEC Group, Inc., Austin, TX
  
• Offsite Commercial Disposal of E&P Wastes
  John Veil and Markus Puder, Argonne National Laboratory, Washington, DC
  
• Effective Storm Water and Sediment Control During Pipeline Construction Using New Filter Fence Concept
  Sandeep Yeri, Jeyarathan Arjunan, Khaled Gasem, Ellen Stevens and Bill Barfield, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
  IPEC-FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Proactive Safety and Pollution Prevention
  Nathan Walters and Quinn Holtby, Katch Kan Limited, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  
• Determination of Mercury and 22 Other Metals in Hydrocarbon Matrices at Trace Level Concentrations Using a Novel Digestion Method
  Carl E. Hensman and Deborah Cussen, Frontier Geosciences, Inc., Seattle, WA
  
• Solidifiers – Changing the Face of Oil Spills on Water
  Thomas R. Hanley, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; Terry Masters and Dan Parker, Immediate Response Spill Technologies, Louisville, KY
  

PHYTOREMEDIATION

• In SituMeasurement of Rhizosphere Degradation Kinetics
  Greg Thoma, Thanh B. Lam, Pei-Ting Hsu, Khursheed Karim, Duane Wolf and Susan Ziegler, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  
• Effect of Petroleum-Tolerant Grasses on Biodegradation of Weathered Hydrocarbons in Soil
  James L. Brown, Lockheed Martin/REAC, Edison, NJ; Harry Allen, U.S. EPA, Edison, NJ
  
• A Five-Year Field Study to Evaluate Phytoremediation of a Crude Oil-Contaminated Soil
  Khursheed Karim, G.J. Thoma, D.C. Wolf, P.M. White, Jr., O. Alba and K.J. Davis, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  IPEC-FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Field Testing of Soil Bioremediation Guidelines for Small, Independent Oil Producers in New York and Pennsylvania
  James L. Brown, Lockheed Martin/REAC, Edison, NJ; Harry Allen, U.S. EPA, Edison, NJ
  
• Phytoremediaton of Pyrene-Contaminated Soil: Nitrogen Additions and Plant Root Parameters
  Oriana Alba, D.C. Wolf, J.D. Mattice, K.J. Davis and G.J. Thoma, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
  
• Cost Comparisons of Phytotechnologies to Other Remedial Approaches
  David T. Tsao and Barb Padlo, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL
  
• Plant/Ground-Water Interactions at a Petroleum-Hydrocarbon Contaminated Site
  James E. Landmeyer, USGS, Columbia, SC
  

COALBED NATURAL GAS PRODUCED WATER I

• Coalbed Natural Gas Development in the Powder River Basin: Local Objections vs National Impacts
  J. Daniel Arthur and Bruce Langhus, ALL Consulting, L.L.C., Tulsa, OK
  
• Use of Coalbed Methane Produced Water for Power Plant Cooling In the San Juan Basin
  Barbara Carney, U.S. DOE/NETL, Morgantown, WV; Thomas Feeley, U.S. DOE/NETL, Pittsburgh, PA; John Duda, U.S. DOE/NETL, Morgantown WV; Kent Zammit, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA
  
• Opportunities and Limitations of CBNG Produced Water Management Alternatives in the Powder River Basin
  Thomas J. Osborne, HydroSolutions, Inc., Billings, MT; Joel E. Adams, HydroSolutions, Inc., Red Lodge, MT
  
• Managed Irrigation Systems for the Beneficial Use of CBNG Produced Water
  Kevin C. Harvey, Dina E. Brown and Aaron DeJoia, KC Harvey, L.L.C., Bozeman, MT
  
• Coalbed Production…Topsoil Management, Sampling and Analytical Procedure
  Kate Forsting, Energy Laboratories, Inc., Casper, WY
  
• Assimilative Capacity in the Powder River, WY for Discharge of Coal Bed Natural Gas Produced Water
  Jeffrey T. Cline, Anadarko Petroleum Co., Houston, TX; Arthur O’Hayre, Applied Hydrology Inc., Denver, CO; Glen Maynard, Devon Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK
  

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, COMPLIANCE AND AUDITING

• Best Practices for Environmentally Driven Capital Projects
  Robert A. Brown, Jr., Independent Project Analysis, Ashburn, VA; Allen Kufert, BP Products, Texas City, TX
  
• Petroleum Environmental Data from the Field to the Map
  David W. Rich, Geotech Computer Systems, Inc., Englewood, CO
  
• State Electronic Commerce Initiatives: Produce More Oil and Gas and Increase Environmental Protection
  Paul Jehn, Ground Water Protection Council, Oklahoma City, OK; Stan Belieu, Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission, Sidney, NE; Mark Bohrer, North Dakota Industrial Commission, Bismark, ND; Tom Richmond, Montana Board of Oil and Gas, Billings, MT
  
• HSE Auditing: Challenges of Management System Integration with Compliance Measurement
  Ann Potten, Baker Petrolite Corporation, Sugar Land, TX
  
• Cleanup Goals and Site Closures – The South Dakota Triad Challenge
  John Sohl and Ned Tillman, COLUMBIA Technologies, Baltimore, MD; Dennis Rounds, South Dakota Petroleum Release Compensation Fund, Pierre, SD
  
• Technology Transfer in Environmental Remediation
  Russell R. Sirabian, Batelle Memorial Institute, New Rochelle, NY; Myriam Amezcua Allieri, Cintia Mosler Garcia and Victor Martinez Martinez, Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo, Mexico City, Mexico
  
• Waste Management Challenges at Petrobras E&P
  Lucia de Toledo Camara Neder, Edgard Rangel Pessanha, Ricardo Caselli Moni, Denise de Almeida Pires do Rosario and Janete Teixeira Brandao, PETROBRAS, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  

REMEDIATION OF HYDROCARBON SPILLS

• What Has Been Learned From Sites With Difficult Lithologic Conditions Where Controlled In-Situ Chemical Oxidation Processes Are Being Used To Reduce Petroleum Contaminants
  Thomas Douglas, Advanced Environmental Technologies, L.L.C., Pensacola, FL; William Lundy, DeepEarth Technologies, Inc., Oak Forest, IL; Eric Nuttall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  
• Innovative Remediation Technology for Pipeline Releases
  David B. Vance, ARCADIS, Midland, TX
  
• LNAPL Management: Moving Toward Site Specific Clean-up Goals
  Jeffrey A. Johnson, The RETEC Group, Inc., Houston, TX
  
• Evaluation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Historic Exploration and Production Waste and Associated Impacted Soil
  Heidi Bojes, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin, TX
  
• Surfactant Enhanced Washing of Soils Contaminated with Three Mexican Crude Oils. Use of Nonionic and Ionic Surfactants With or Without Salts
  Luis Torres, X. Lumus and R. Iturbe, UNAM, Mexico, D.F. Mexico
  
• Optimization of a Crude Hydrocarbons Biodegradation Process in Soil, Using a Native Biostimulated Bacteria Consortium in a Static Pilot Biopile
  Alfonso C. Espitia, Rocio Jimenez, Virginia Torrecilla, Rocio Cruz and Karina Uribe, UAM, Mexico, D.F.
  
• The Application of Jet Recycle Technology in the Treatment of Oily Sludge from Oil Lakes of Kuwait
  Al-Hashem, A. Al-Muttawa and E. Al-Muhameed, Petroleum Research and Studies Center, KISR, Safat, Kuwait
  

SITE CHARACTERIZATION AND FORENSIC GEOCHEMISTRY

• An Evaluation of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) Cleanup Levels for Abandoned Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Facilities
  Peter G. Pope and Heidi K. Bojes, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin, TX
  
• Improve Hydrocarbon Contamination Assessment and Conceptualization Using Visual Imagery Technology and LIF Data
  Meng Ling and Jeffrey Johnson, The RETEC Group, Inc., Houston, TX
  
• Using Chemical and Process Forensics to Identify Refined Products in Complex Environmental Samples
  Phillip W. Beall, Batelle Memorial Institute, Houston, TX; Yakov Galperin, Batelle Memorial Institute, Moorpark, CA
  
• Alternative Methods to Evaluate Volatile Organic Compounds in Soil: A Mexican Case Study
  Alfonso C. Espitia and Nina Kondratenko, UAM, Mexico, D.F.; Jose Luis Luna Baez, PGPB, Mexico, D.F.
  
• Delineation of a Petroleum Release Using the Soil Conductivity/Membrane Interface Probe
  Roger Lamb, Maxim Technologies, Kansas City, KS
  
• The Integration of the Membrane Interface Probe with In Situ Remediation Injection Technology to Facilitate Cost Effective Treatment of Groundwater
  Eliot Cooper, Vironex, Golden, CO
  
• The New DRET Test to Predict Heavy Metal Release During a Resuspension of Anoxic Sediments
  Mason B. Tomson, Heather J. Shipley, Yan Gao, and Amy T. Kan, Rice University, Houston, TX
  

COALBED NATURAL GAS PRODUCED WATER II /
POLLUTION PREVENTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT II

COALBED NATURAL GAS PRODUCED WATER II

• Capacitive Deionization Desalination Technology for Coal Bed Methane Produced Water, Treatment and Rangeland Rehabilitation
  Mike Hightower, Allan Sattler, Richard Kottenstette, Charlie Hanley, Ryan Donahe, Emily Wright and Sam Wallace, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
  
• Methane in Water Wells, San Juan Basin, Colorado: Analysis of Data Submitted in Response to COGCC Orders 112-156 & 112-157
  Anthony W. Gorody, Universal Geoscience Consulting, Inc., Houston, TX; Debbie Baldwin and Cindy Scott, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Denver, CO
  

POLLUTION PREVENTION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT II

• Investigating Variations of Mercury and Trace Metal Analytical Results by Interrogation of a 55-gallon Barrel of Light Crude
  Carl E. Hensman and Deborah Cussen, Frontier Geosciences, Inc., Seattle, WA
  
• Nitrogen Rejection Membranes to Increase Gas Heating Value – A Wellhead Process
  Ankur Jariwala and Kaaeid A. Lokhandwala, Membrane Technology & Research, Inc., Menlo Park, CA
  
• New Approach in Rating Environmental Compliance Using a Weighted Optimal Life Cycle Analysis in Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Development
  Kingsley Abhulimen, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
  
• CO 2 Reduction by Green Algae
  Young Hoon Choi and Omar Barkat, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
  
• Countermeasure to Global Warming
  Yoshihiro Tsukita, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan; Masaki Iijima, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Yokohana, Japan
  

RESTORATION OF SOILS IMPACTED BY HYDROCARBONS AND PRODUCED WATER RELEASES /
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION: GREENING OF THE OILFIELD WITH INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

RESTORATION OF SOILS IMPACTED BY HYDROCARBONS AND PRODUCED WATER

• Earthworms as Ecoengineers in the Restoration of Oil and Brine-Impacted Soils Following Remediation
  Nitya Alahari, Kerry Sublette, and Eleanor Jennings, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Greg Thoma and Duane Wolf, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; Kathleen Duncan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Mac A. Callaham, Jr., USDA-Forest Service, Athens, GA; Tim Todd, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• United States Business Council for Sustainable Development Green Brownfields Initiative
  David D. Friday, The RETEC Group, Inc., Austin, TX; Andrew Mangan, U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development, Austin, TX; Margaret Roy, URS, Austin, TX; Brad Raffle, Baker Botts, Houston, TX
  
• Oil, Gas and Coal Bed Methane Reclamation and Financial Assurance Guide
  James R. Kuipers and Kimberly Machardy, Kuipers & Associates and Western Organization of Resource Councils, Butte, MT; Victoria Lynne, Blue Sky Technical Services, Elliston, MT
  
• Oil Pollution of West Kazakhstan Soil by Oil and Gas Companies
  Yedil Zhanburshin, Karaganda State University, Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan; E.A. Buketov, Kazakh National University, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan; Aithazha B. Bigaliev, Karaganda State University, Aktau, Republic of Kazakhstan
  

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION: GREENING OF THE OILFIELD WITH INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

• Windmill Potholes
  Jim Myers, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX; Jim Neaville, USFWS (retired), Anahuac, TX
  
• Mother Nature: An Industrial Application
  Tony Pace, Parsons Corporation, Cleves, OH; Jim Myers, Chevron, Houston, TX
  
• Crude Oil Production & Geothermal Technology Transfer Using the Natural Energy Engine
  Brian Hageman, Deluge, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
  
• A New Meme for the Hydrocarbon/Energy Industry
  Douglas B. Swift, MWS, L.L.C., Midland, TX; Sovani Meksvanh and Ronald Whelan, MWS, L.L.C., Bethesda, MD; Richard Erdlac, Jr., University of Texas, Odessa, TX; Anthony Swift, DOT, Washington, DC
  
• Restoring Greenspace for Wildlife Habitat Conservation
  Stephen Archer, Wildlife Habitat Council, La Porte, TX
  

USING MOLECULAR METHODS IN THE ANALYSIS OF SUBSURFACE MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AT HYDROCARBON IMPACTED SITES

In Honor of David C. White, Center for Biomarker Analysis, UTK/ORNL Distinguished Scientist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

• Assessment of In Situ Biodegradation Potential of MTBE Using 13C-Labeled MTBE and Bio-Sep ® Beads
  Jennifer Busch-Harris, Kerry Sublette, Ken Roberts and Eleanor Jennings, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Aaron Peacock and D.C. White, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Greg Davis, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN; William Holmes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Xiaomin Yang, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL
  IPEC FUNDED PROJECT
  
• Investigation of Microbial Consortia Stimulated by Denitrification-Based Bioremediation in a Gasoline-Contaminated Aquifer via DGGE, Real-Time PCR and Multi-Color FluorescenceIn Situ Hybridization (“mFISH”)
  Eric Hince, Geovation Consultants, Inc., Florida, NY; Dora Ogles, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN
  
• Monitoring Subsurface Microbial Ecology in a Sulfate-Amended Gasoline-Contaminated Aquifer
  Kerry Sublette, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Aaron Peacock and D.C. White, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Greg Davis and Dora Ogles, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN; Dave Cook, GeoEngineers, Inc. Bellingham, WA; Ravi Kolhatkar, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Houston, TX; Xiaomin Yang, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Warrenville, IL; Dennis Beckmann, Atlantic Richfield (a BP affiliated company), Tulsa, OK
  
• In Search of the Truth? Genetic Potential (rDNA) Versus Expression (mRNA) for Understanding Microbial Responses
  Greg Davis and Dora Ogles, Microbial Insights, Inc., Rockford, TN; Aaron Peacock, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  
• Utility of Lipid Biomarkers in Support of Bioremediation Efforts at Army Sites
  D. B. Ringelberg and C.M. Reynolds, U.S. Army ERDC-CRREL, Hanover, NH
  
• Molecular Genetic Detection & Enumeration of Aromatic Oxygenase Genes at Gasoline-Contaminated Sites
  Loring Nies, Cindy H. Hakatsu, Jennifer Nebe and Brett Sutton, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Brett R Baldwin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  
• Development of a RTQ-PCR Protocol for Quantification of Anaerobic Benzene Degraders
  Marcio LB da Silva and Pedro Alvarez, Rice University, Houston, TX