The Western Climate Initiative Reporting Committee on Oil and Gas has developed draft recommendations for quantifying certain emissions in the upstream oil and gas sector.  These recommendations will serve as the basis for the WCI’s comments to U.S. EPA on their revised draft reporting rules for the sector (Subpart W), which are anticiapted for release sometime in March.  The recommendations will also serve as the basis for the WCI essential mandatory reporting requirements for the upstream oil and gas sector, expected to be complete by this calendar year.  After EPA has released their final version of Subpart W, the WCI Reporting Committee will develop a set of recommended Essential Requirements for Mandatory Reporting for this sector which will be harmonized with the final EPA rule.

Many of the draft recommendations have been reviewed by a technical workgroup consisting of representatives from the oil and gas industry and the environmental community and are now ready for broader stakeholder review and input.   

The WCI has developed and posted draft recommendations covering eight issues: Contractor Emissions, Compressor Emissions, Glycol Dehydratration, Sour Gas Treatment, Well Unloading, Storage Tanks, Instrument Gas and Vented Methane, and Reporting Entity and Threshold.  Click on the links to provide comments.  Comments on these papers should be submitted by March 30 for the Reporting Entity and Threshold Issue Paper and March 16 for the others.  The subcommittee may post additional papers in the future.