Importance of Vapor Recovery Towers
Let’s break this down and understand exactly what a vapor recovery tower is and how it can be beneficial to a tank battery facility. A VRT is a tall pressure …
Air Quality
Don’t Go Up in Smoke!
When recovering your flash gas with a vapor recovery unit is not a viable option or there is no existing pipeline to sell the gas, you can choose to destroy …
Representative Sampling: Determining VOC Emissions
Is there an easier, less time consuming, and money saving way to determine a production or midstream site’s emissions for air quality permitting purposes? Why yes there is! The Texas …
Countdown to the First Wave of NSPS Quad O Compliance Deadlines
All affected facilities (i.e. petroleum storage vessels) that fall into Group II of the September 23, 2013 NSPS Quad O standards set forth by EPA are subject to rule 60.5395(d)(1) …
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) How do these standards affect the oil and gas industry?
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently updated their New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for reducing greenhouse gas emissions as it pertains to the oil and gas sector, …
Why should sampling produced water be apart of your air emissions reporting strategy?
Hydrocarbon vapor is more commonly found in produced water than one might think, especially when a new well comes online. When a new well flows to the separator for the …