PA34B:
Innovation and Regulation: Policies for Facilitating the Adoption of New Approaches to Mitigate Oil and Gas Emissions


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Session ID#: 52482

Session Description:
Traditional air pollution control regulations aim to reduce pollution by mandating a set of best management practices at applicable sites, such as equipment standards and leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs. For the oil and natural gas (O/NG) industry, such regulations have been important for reducing methane and VOC emissions, but may impede the adoption of more cost-effective alternatives. Emerging monitoring technologies using stationary, mobile, and satellite platforms, many focused on continuous monitoring or frequently surveying areas for high emitting sites, may allow LDAR approaches that fundamentally differ in structure but achieve greater emission reductions than current programs like optical gas imaging. Performance-based regulations may enable such solutions by permitting alternative LDAR approaches shown to achieve equivalent emission reductions through scientifically rigorous validations. Speakers from stakeholder groups including industry, government, and academia are invited to present on policy approaches for facilitating the adoption of innovative technologies for mitigating O/NG emissions.
Primary Convener:  David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Zimmerle, Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States and Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Daniel Zimmerle, Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Index Terms:

6324 Legislation and regulations [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A multi-stakeholder framework for demonstrating equivalence between regulatory and alternative leak detection and repair programs (426432)
Thomas A. Fox1, Arvind P Ravikumar2, Thomas Barchyn3, Chris Hugenholtz3, Matthew Johnson4, David Richard Lyon5, Daniel Zimmerle6 and Timothy Taylor7, (1)University of Calgary, Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)Carleton University, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, United States
Bend like a tree or break like a stick: a collaborative process to develop and implement a framework for evaluating leak detection and mitigation technologies and methodologies in the United States (437191)
Aileen Nowlan, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States, David Richard Lyon, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States and Elizabeth Paranhos, Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, United States
The Role of Modeling Frameworks in Assessing New Methane Leak Detection Protocols (454905)
Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, Jingfan Wang, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Sindhu Sreedhara, Stanford University, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford, United States, Daniel Javier Roda-Stuart, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Canada's Methane Regulations for the Upstream Oil and Gas Sector (442763)
Roopa Ganapathy, Gatineau, Canada
Innovations in Regulatory and Economic Approaches to Managing Methane (Invited) (408171)
Lara Fowler1,2, Hari M. Osofsky3, Zachary Barkley4, Seth Blumsack5, Kenneth J Davis6, Thomas Lauvaux7, Ross Pifer3, Ekrem Korkut3 and Chloe Marie3, (1)Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States, (3)The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (5)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (7)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States
Industry Perspective on Performance-Based Regulation to Encourage Innovation (459361)
Andrew Pomerantz, Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
The Immense Complexity of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. ยง 7401 et seq., as it Pertains to CH4 and the Oil & Gas Industry (OG): Rationale for States to Disconnect from Federal Guidance (345087)
Alexander Krokus, Portland State University, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland, OR, United States

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