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The request arrives on a Tuesday. An auditor wants the support behind last year's reported value: the source extract, the calculation version, who approved the correction, and what the field team recorded when the measurement changed. The...
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Some of the hardest environmental compliance work begins after the rules are known. The challenge is often getting complete data on time, investigating exceptions, interpreting...
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EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program requires covered oil and gas facilities and suppliers to do more than report an annual emissions total. Depending on the applicable 40 CFR...
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Two companies can report nearly identical methane inventories while emitting dramatically different amounts of methane. The difference often is not operational performance. It is...
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Greenhouse gas reporting rarely fails because an environmental team cannot run a calculation. It fails when production extracts arrive late, emission factors live in unmarked...
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Ask an environmental manager what almost broke last year's greenhouse gas filing, and the answer is rarely missing software. It is usually a production extract that arrived late,...
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Ask an environmental manager what almost broke last year's greenhouse gas filing, and the answer is rarely the final report template. It is usually a production extract that...
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Ask an air compliance manager where last quarter's filing almost failed, and the answer is rarely the report template. It is usually late contractor data two days before an EPA...
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An LDAR program can look orderly on paper and still fall apart in the field.
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By the time oil and gas environmental, compliance, and emissions leaders reach vendor demonstrations, most of the category education is already complete. The remaining challenge...
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