Standards

Clarke Valve has announced that it has secured two Provincial approvals on its expected path to a countrywide Canadian Registration Number (CRN).The Alberta Boilers Safety Association (ABSA) issued the first approval for Clarke Valve to sell its proprietary Shutter Valve product line in Canada.

In January 2020, new federal rules on methane measurement will be enforced in the Canadian oil and gas sector. The rules will require every oil and gas company in Canada to have a system in place in order to meet the goals of the 2016 agreement with the United States and Mexico on controlling methane emissions.Methane is a damaging greenhouse gas that has up to 30 times more potential to trap heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, and leaks can occur at every stage in oil and gas production, whether from flares, pipelines, equipment tanks and/or processors.The production of natural gas consists primarily of methane, and is particularly susceptible to leaks.

SeekOps Inc. has secured funding from two investors as part of its Series A-1 fundraising - OGCI Climate Investments fund (OGCI CI) and Equinor Technology Ventures (ETV).SeekOps develops advanced sensor technology to detect, localize, and quantify natural gas emissions through integrated drone-based systems.

The Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants), or more commonly known as BWON, rule was promulgated under 40 CFR Part 61,Subpart FF, of the Clean Air Act in 1993 to control benzene emissions from facility waste.The rule applies to Petroleum refineries, Chemical plants, Coke by-product recovery facilities and TSDFs (treatment, storage and disposal facilities) that handle Wastes from refineries, chemical plants and coke by-production recovery facilities.

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Small refiners in the U.S. will not have much longer to wait to find out if they have been exempt from biofuel mandates.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will start deciding on 2018 waivers in the “next few weeks, month at the most,” said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said at a Monroe Energy LLC’s Trainer refinery event in Pennsylvania.The Renewable Fuel Standard has been a source of contention between agriculture and oil refiners and the fight over the small refinery exemptions has been particularly contentious.

The Canadian federal government has announced it plans to increase the carbon tax on new natural-gas plants in an effort to discourage power companies from building them.This tax is part of the final set of regulations for the government’s carbon-tax system for big industrial greenhouse-gas emitters.

The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) has revealed two new studies that offer evidence of grain-based ethanol’s potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, This new research will allow policymakers and regulators to focus on the advances being made by corn farmers and ethanol producers in sustainability and efficiency.“As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers the GHG impacts of expanded ethanol consumption under the Renewable Fuel Standard, we urge them to strongly consider the latest science and data regarding ethanol’s tremendous carbon benefits,” said RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper in a press release.One of the studies was carried out by the Laboratory for Applied Spatial Analysis at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE-LASA).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing away with a policy that allows pollution enforcement officials to drop in unannounced for inspections at power and chemical plants.In a July 11 memo shared with EPA, regional administrators outlined a new enforcement policy that would do away with surprise inspections tactics.The new policy would stop agency officials from conducting inspections at facilities without giving prior notice to the states involved, as a way to increase communication between agencies, states, and regulatory bodies.“A ‘no surprises' principle is the foundation of joint work planning and will minimize the misunderstandings that can be caused by the lack of regular, bilateral communication,” wrote Susan Bodine, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Assistance in the memo.