Oil and gas operators today are faced with the multiple challenges of increasing production efficiently and maximizing profitability while also maintaining compliance with increasingly stringent emissions regulations. Flaring of both associated natural gas and tank vapors may be necessary, yet wasteful practices. While essential for safety and regulatory compliance, flaring results in the loss of…
In our article Living with OOOOb – Strategies and Solutions for Compliance we covered the major components of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) comprehensive updates to 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOOb (NSPS OOOOb) and Emissions Guidelines OOOOc (EG OOOOc), and how EcoVapor solutions can help operators achieve compliance. In that blog post, we noted…
On March 8, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its final new regulations to 40 CFR part 60 subpart OOOOb (“quad-o” or OOOOb) in rule format in the Federal Register. OOOOb mandates significant new emissions performance standards and compliance requirements for oil and gas operators in the United States. The table below summarizes which…
Keith Stelter, Chief Strategy Officer with American Safety Services, recently interviewed David Wallace, Facilities Engineering Supervisor with ConocoPhillips. In a wide-ranging discussion, David discusses the challenges his team faced with emissions generated by needing to flare tank vapor gas because of oxygen contamination, and how they solved the problem using EcoVapor ZerO2 technology. Watch the…
On January 12th, EPA released its proposed rule on the “Waste Emission Charge”, established in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The WEC program applies to facilities in the oil and gas sector that exceed certain calculated emission thresholds by imposing “a charge on high-emitting oil and gas facilities to incentivize actions to reduce wasteful…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced its Final Rule for Oil and Natural Gas Operations on December 2, 2023 (EPA oooob), which includes a specific focus on “covers and closed vent systems” (CVS) at sites established, modified, or reconstructed after December 6, 2022. Closed vent systems encompass a wide range of components, including storage tanks…