In September, The Environmental Partnership returned to the Permian Basin region for its seventh consecutive year.  The event, once again hosted at Oxy’s Midland offices, brought together local operators representing 28 companies to discuss shared challenges and learn about ways to detect and drive down methane emissions. Company air and engineering experts discussed methane regulatory compliance challenges, compressor emissions solutions, and shared practices on how companies are using operational parameter data (SCADA, PI Tags, parametric data, pressure, temperatures, etc.) to predict, prevent, and report emissions more accurately.

Staff from TCEQ’s Air Permitting Division also provided a presentation covering the new federal methane regulations and next steps for how Texas will implement these standards into its State Implementation Plan.