STUDY ON AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT ISSUES AND POLICY REGULATIONS IN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Natural gas and oil are rapidly increasing across the country due to technological developments that have made extraction of unconventional resources, such as shale gas and tight gas has economically possible. Due to expansion of operations to locations where the industry has never been active, emissions of air pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, Nitrogen dioxide, and volatile organic compounds create potential environmental and public health impacts to the society and to the environment. This study reviews the air pollutant occurs in the oil and gas industry and the effects to the human health and to the environment.