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Missing Data in Air and GHG Reporting
An oil and gas operator is preparing its annual air and GHG reports. Operating hours for one compressor were never recorded in June. A...
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Darren Belgrave
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Running an In-House Compliance Reporting Program
Running an in-house compliance reporting program means the operator stays accountable for the reporting boundary, the accepted fuel value,...
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SCADA Data for Emissions Reporting in Oil and Gas
Consider a compressor station closing its April emissions inventory. The April fuel-gas export arrives on the second working day of May. It...
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Emissions Reconciliation in Oil and Gas: Why Site-Level and Source-Level Totals Disagree
The flyover file for the compressor station arrives with a site-level measurement: a rate for a few hours in the afternoon. The...
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Venting and Flaring in Oil and Gas: Sources, Quantification, and Reporting
Venting and flaring emissions rarely arrive ready to enter an emissions inventory. A flare meter may record the volume of gas sent to a...
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Carbon Accounting vs Emissions Management
In the same week, the corporate sustainability team asks for the company's GHG inventory, while an environmental lead at a compressor...
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Emissions Assurance and Verification in Oil and Gas
Reported emissions have already been calculated and approved. Now someone else needs to review the work behind them. They may be an...
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Emissions Forecasting in Oil and Gas
Leadership asks what happens to emissions if the drilling program adds a rig, a vapor-recovery project slips into next year, or a...
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Fugitive Emissions in Oil and Gas: Sources, Measurement, and Reporting
An optical gas imaging (OGI) camera shows methane at a pressure relief valve. The leak detection and repair (LDAR) crew tags the leak. But...
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From Methane Measurement to Inventory: How Oil and Gas Teams Close the Workflow Gap
The flyover file lands before lunch. Operations recognizes the pad. LDAR already has an open tag on a nearby valve. The methane inventory...
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