Ona Papageorgiou asked about the GHGRP proposal to require API numbers to be reported. Alexis Mckittrick said that proposal will likely be signed soon and she would send a link to the prepublication copy out to the committee as soon as it becomes available. Mark Gibbs has spoken to Ramon Alvarex at EDF about the UT-Austin Phase 2 Production Site Study. This is expected to come out around Thanksgiving. The Industry/EDF midstream studies will not be published until 2015. CSU had called OK about one such study where their work showed Oklahoma to be an (upper) outlier with regard to number of compressor stations in the state. Mark wondered about the accuracy of making projections based on national averages of oil and gas facility and equipment distributions when the midstream can vary significantly between basins. “plumbing” Tom Moore and Regi Oomen are the chairs for the O&G session at the 2015 International EI conference. They are soliciting abstracts (due end of November) and would like to have a panel session with representatives from EPA, states, and industry. Mark said that after the EPA/States Summit the next logical step is to involve industry in efforts to improve O&G inventories and he urged that API be invited to participate. The conference will also be a useful check-in for progress on the Summit Action Plan. Jennifer Snyder said that a half day has been scheduled for oil & gas training at the conference and she asked for input from the committee on what this should cover. In addition to training on using the tool, Mark wondered whether there would be resources for the training on OOOO recently given by Ron Truelove of Trinity to several states. For the EI conference, preference might be for material on oil and gas operations versus regulatory applicability. Ona Papageorgiou suggested going through each of the main processes at an oil and gas production site for two hours then spending two hours on using the tool. This would help people new to oil & gas emissions get up to speed with what they will need to do for their 2104 NEI submission. Lynn Deahl suggested using a small database as the example during tool training in order to get people quickly set up for the hands-on training. Roy Huntley gave some brief remarks on the occasion of his upcoming retirement. Next meeting is Thursday, December 11 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm Eastern.
Ona Papageorgiou asked about the GHGRP proposal to require API numbers to be reported. Alexis Mckittrick said that proposal will likely be signed soon and she would send a link to the prepublication copy out to the committee as soon as it becomes available. Mark Gibbs has spoken to Ramon Alvarex at EDF about the UT-Austin Phase 2 Production Site Study. This is expected to come out around Thanksgiving. The Industry/EDF midstream studies will not be published until 2015. CSU had called OK about one such study where their work showed Oklahoma to be an (upper) outlier with regard to number of compressor stations in the state. Mark wondered about the accuracy of making projections based on national averages of oil and gas facility and equipment distributions when the midstream “plumbing” can vary significantly between basins. Tom Moore and Regi Oomen are the chairs for the O&G session at the 2015 International EI conference. They are soliciting abstracts (due end of November) and would like to have a panel session with representatives from EPA, states, and industry. Mark said that after the EPA/States Summit the next logical step is to involve industry in efforts to improve O&G inventories and he urged that API be invited to participate. The conference will also be a useful check-in for progress on the Summit Action Plan. Jennifer Snyder said that a half day has been scheduled for oil & gas training at the conference and she asked for input from the committee on what this should cover. In addition to training on using the tool, Mark wondered whether there would be resources for the training on OOOO recently given by Ron Truelove of Trinity to several states. For the EI conference, preference might be for material on oil and gas operations versus regulatory applicability. Ona Papageorgiou suggested going through each of the main processes at an oil and gas production site for two hours then spending two hours on using the tool. This would help people new to oil & gas emissions get up to speed with what they will need to do for their 2104 NEI submission. Lynn Deahl suggested using a small database as the example during tool training in order to get people quickly set up for the hands-on training. Roy Huntley gave some brief remarks on the occasion of his upcoming retirement. Next meeting is Thursday, December 11 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm Eastern.
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