ENHANCING LDAR PRACTICES
As a Permian exploration and production company headquartered in Midland, Elevation Resources LLC is committed to taking care of the environment that we live in and is dedicated to the responsible, safe, and sustainable development of oil and gas. Regardless of the regulatory landscape, environmental stewardship is a key element to maintaining our license to operate. Elevation Resources has taken action on easily mitigated emissions sources to further minimize our GHG emissions and now is tackling the more difficult sources with technical expertise and operational efficiency.
One area where Elevation has focused its efforts is implementing practices that go a step further than required leak detection and repair (LDAR) monitoring requirements. Staff have increased their usage of in-house OGI cameras on battery builds and upgrades and sizing equipment to help them identify emission sources and where there is room for growth. Facility upgrades to improve flare (DRE) and rerouting gas within a battery could not have been made without the countless boots on the ground from our field team and engineers and the use of OGI cameras and methane sensors.
We are proud of the steps taken by our team to lower emissions and believe that as an industry, we are a lot stronger together than we are separated. We recognize the importance of sharing emission reduction solutions across the industry and in particular, with smaller independent companies. A given well is not a big emitter, but when you aggregate it, it’s significant. Through Elevation’s participation in industry organizations like The Partnership, we are working to expand and share our knowledge as well as find ways to make emissions solutions like monitoring technologies and LDAR practices accessible to all so that smaller operators can continue to produce.