Articles on emissions, EHS, environmental compliance, and connected operations.
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 supporting information, and determining what should happen...
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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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Most EHS software evaluations begin with feature comparison spreadsheets. Teams compare incident management, inspections, corrective actions, permits, dashboards, mobile access,...
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