Environmental Baseline Assessment In Oil And Gas Activities In Indonesia Using Remote Sensing

Abstract

Oil and gas industry are an expensive industries, high risk and high technology. The exploration of oil and gas activities has not always been without some ecological side effects. Therefore the Environmental Baseline Assessment (EBA) needs to be done before the starts of oil and gas activities. An EBA helps to understand existingenvironmental conditions thus defining the focus of the environmental impact analysis and resources that need protection through appropriate and viable mitigation measures. The EBA consists both desktop studies and fields surveys. The desktop studies comprise the collection and evaluation of existing data, studies and reports already gathered and available through local government and nongovernmental organisations. The field surveys comprise observations and registration, collection and analysis of samples. The study process entails a scoping exercise by multi-disciplinary group of experienced specialists for the key environmental issues. Based on the valued ecosystem components, the study scope should cover, but not limited to issues such as climatic conditions, drainage and water resources, soils, flora, fauna, air quality, noise, land use, land tenure and socioeconomic aspects. The results of this study provide an overview of the condition of oil and gas areas both the physical environment, biological and chemical. Mapping land use and infrastructure will also be taken into consideration in the mobilization tool and emergencies. Another results are to provide an overview potential conflicts with other activities, spatial plans, conservation areas and population concentration. It can be used as a basis for good planning and mitigation. Impact arising from oil and gas activities could be physical, chemical, biological and socio-economic impacts. With such potential impacts, impact prediction can be analysis from the results of EBA. The other results of EBA is sensitivity area and called Environmental Sensitivity area. It is a reflection of ecological, social economic and sociacultural entities of certain area and comonly used to set response priority of environmental damage in oil and gas activities.

UAV Architecture for Patrolling Air in Geotourism Zone at Disaster Risk with the Characteristics of GPS Signal Limit

“…Potential applications of UAV Vehicles are useful for the emergency response monitoring teams to access unreachable areas, take timely steps by learning from information which is taken in the destination zone, making informed decisions related to the effective emergency response (Arain & Moeini, 2016). Mitigation technology approaches in geotourism areas generally emphasize using traditional technologies, where manual measurements by embedding sensors at certain points are often constrained by limited internet access in geotourism areas (Richter et al, 2016;Wikantika, 2018). On the other hand, the toxic gas released from the crater located at the geotourism location follows the wind direction which is difficult to predict, so that the existing approaches collide with high risk of mitigation.…”