Air Quality

Atmospheric Emissions

2007 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Actual Target
Sulphur Dioxide All Sources
Tonnes per day (annual average) 226 ‹250/210 218 227 241 212
Tonnes per 1,000 bbls of SSB (annual average) 0.74 0.97 0.83 1.05 1.00 0.99
Sour Gas Flaring/Diverting
Tonnes per day SO2 6.1 ‹1.0 11.4 4.8 5.0 5.6
Sour Gas Flaring
Tonnes per day SO2 4.3 ‹0.8 10.1 4.6 3.3 5.5
NOx All Sources
Tonnes per day 69.6 66 55 56 57
Kilograms produced per 1,000 barrels of SSB 0.23 0.25 0.25 0.23 0.27
Diverter Stack Usage
Hours per year 261 ‹70 138 25 2021 11
  1. Diverter stack usage due to outages of CO Boilers 8-1 and 8-2 while they underwent emergency repairs. See 2004 Sustainability report for discussion.