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GPA Midstream and GPSA are proud to share good news about four of our member companies who have executives recognized among Hart Energy's 2024 Influential Women in Energy.Barbara Harrison, Chevron; Joanne Howard, Crestwood Midstream Partners; Pamela Kearney Skaufel, ExxonMobil; and Susan Hart, ChampionX (GPSA) were part of the 2024 designees honored at a celebratory luncheon [...]

At the behest of GPA Midstream Association, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the comment period on a proposed rule regarding emissions earlier this year that leads to charges on certain waste emissions across the oil and gas industry.On Jan. 26, the EPA published Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas in the Federal [...]

How to approach the expectations of ESG investors is a critical question for midstream energy companies and will be the subject of a keynote presentation from SPL's Dr. Andrew Parker at the upcoming 2022 GPA Midstream Convention.This is a conversation the oil and gas industry should not, and cannot, shy away from," Parker said. "But [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to remove affirmative defense provisions from emissions standards regulations under the Clean Air Act. On Jan. 16, GPA Midstream Association filed comments with the EPA protesting the proposed rule that would take away the oil and gas industry's ability to protect itself from liability in the case of [...]

It will take some time to wade through the massive new set of regulations on new and existing methane sources from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but so far it looks like a mixed bag for GPA Midstream Association members.The EPA laid out the more than 1,600-page document during the global climate Conference of the [...]

GPA Midstream Association's Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Matt Hite spoke about proposed leak detection and repair (LDAR) and pipeline location rules last week before the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.The committee meeting made it through only a portion of the LDAR rules first published in [...]

The May 2023 article in CompressorTech2 magazine highlighted how GPA Midstream member companies are using virtual reality (VR) to transform operator training for gas compression skids, based on VR learning modules rolled out by Oklahoma State University's Institute of Technology. As OSUIT doubles down on VR as a superior learning medium to train the midstream [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to continue stringent regulation of sites once considered a major source of air pollution but have since become more efficient and downgraded to a minor source of air pollution. The proposed rule is not permissible under the Clean Air Act as written by Congress and should be eliminated.GPA [...]

A proposed rule on which pipeline incidents need to be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board would create an overwhelming burden on the NTSB and interfere with another agency's ability to do its own investigations.GPA Midstream Association joined with the American Petroleum Institute and the Liquid Energy Pipeline Association in filing comments with the [...]

Earlier this year, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a proposed rule containing new leak detection and repair (LDAR) standards for gas pipelines. In developing these standards, PHMSA failed to comply with risk assessment requirements in the Pipeline Safety Act and included other proposals that lacked adequate legal, technical, and evidentiary support.These [...]