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Sarah Miller will become GPA Midstream's and GPSA's top executive when Joel Moxley retires in September 2024.TULSA, Okla., May 20, 2024, GPA Midstream Association and GPSA announce that Sarah Miller will replace Joel Moxley as the top executive for these organizations when Moxley retires in September 2024.The GPA Midstream Executive Committee is excited to have someone [...]

Every year, GPA Midstream and GPSA member companies work to improve their interaction with the environment. The best of the best of those efforts are recognized with the GPA Midstream Environmental Excellence Awards annually in September.The deadline for the 2024 awards is June 28. The applications allow the nominees to demonstrate their initiative or leadership [...]

At the May 2024 board meeting, GPSA President Ryan Rudnitzki delivered remarks highlighting the contributions and enduring membership of six companies that have been GPSA members for 75+ years. This recognition, and the three-part series about these companies in Midstream News, underscores the association's significant role in supporting and advancing the midstream industry.The longevity of [...]

Dave Morse, right, receives a Midcontinent GPA Midstream Lifetime Achievement Award from chapter President Mark Hochstetler, left, during the chapter's Annual Conference, May 2, 2024.In a fitting tribute to a life of dedication, leadership, and service, industry veteran Dave Morse received a prestigious Midcontinent GPA Midstream Lifetime Achievement Award during their Annual Conference held in Tulsa, [...]

Ten gas gathering industry organizations, including GPA Midstream, joined forces on comments to the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration calling for substantial changes in leak detection requirements for the industry before the agency finalizes the proposed rule.PHMSA's Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee (GPAC) held two meetings, each lasting several days, late last year and [...]

By Gary DollahonSince 1928, GPSA members have been supply chain partners to GPA Midstream in advancing the energy industry. In this final installment of our three-part series highlighting GPSA's six longest-tenured members, we honor our two 80-year-olds: Black & Veatch Corp. and Parker IFP (PECO) Parker Hannifin Corp. When Black & Veatch joined the association [...]

GPA Midstream Association is requesting that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers withdraw its proposal to change the permitting process related to historic properties until the details of those modifications are made clear.The Corps, which shares permit authority with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on water issues, proposed to amend the affected areas for historic [...]

Don Cooney, 1942-2024, former chair and first administrator of GPA Europe.GPA Midstream and GPSA Midstream Suppliers is saddened by the passing of Don Cooney, who was a leader of GPA Europe from its inauguration 40 years ago. Cooney served as the organization's chair in 1993-94 and as its first administrator.Renowned as warm-hearted, funny, unfailingly thoughtful, wise [...]

GPA Midstream and GPSA announced the may retirement of Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary Johnny Dreyer, as well as the hiring of Brandie Dibrow, who will be Director of Midstream Activities.Dreyer has been an instrumental leader of the midstream industry, having served in an array of roles with GPA Midstream and GPSA for nearly [...]

Emerson founder John Wesley Emerson.By Gary DollahonSince 1928, GPSA members have been supply chain partners to GPA Midstream in advancing the energy industry. This year, we're celebrating six companies that have been GPSA members for more than 75 years. In part two of our three-part series, we're highlighting Emerson and Vinson Process Controls. Both companies have identical [...]

By Gary DollahonSince 1928, GPSA members have been supply chain partners to GPA Midstream in advancing the energy industry. This year, we're celebrating six companies, which have been members for more than 75 years. In the first of a three-part series about the longest-tenured GPSA members, we're profiling two such companies with deep roots in [...]

GPA Midstream filed comments with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency March 26, proposing 10 key changes to the agency's pending rules on charging oil and gas industry companies for methane emissions.The extensive comments in the 37-page filing come after a successful petition for an extension to file comments on the EPA's Waste Emissions Charge for [...]

GPA Midstream and GPSA members were key participants in the conversation about the future of energy during the 2024 CERAWeek. The annual meeting is a major event on the energy industry calendar, bringing together global leaders to advance new ideas, insight and solutions to the biggest challenges in energy, the environment, and climate.Attendees include top executives [...]

GPA Midstream Association congratulates recipients of midstream industry awards for their outstanding safety records in 2023. GPA Midstream honors top safety performances in two categories, one comprised of companies based in the U.S. and one of international companies, with up to four divisions each. Division classifications are based on company size, which is determined by [...]

GPSA is pleased to announce recipients of the association's annual awards honoring member companies with outstanding safety records in the previous year. Founded in 1928, GPSA is a platform for cooperative industry effort that supports the midstream industry's need to develop and implement technological advancements. Because of the pioneering efforts of the organization's founders, companies [...]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued its final rule this month with several aspects of the original proposal removed in keeping with comments made by GPA Midstream in 2022.The most important win for GPA Midstream members is the removal of emissions reporting requirements known as Scope 3 disclosure. That proposed requirement would have meant [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A message from Clark White, former Chair, GPA Midstream AssociationWe are in an industry driven by technological innovation and a constant focus on doing things the right way. In the last two years as chairman of the GPA Midstream Association, I've seen the people represented by our member companies rise to occasion to meet challenges posed [...]

GPA Midstream Association and GPSA announced board members and officers during meetings at the GPA Midstream Convention in San Antonio.GPA Midstream AssociationChair — Micheal Dunn, The Williams CompaniesChair-elect, Greg Floerke, MPLXVice chairs, Bill Johnson, Phillips 66; Natalie Gayden, Enterprise Products Operating, LLC, Jared Larew, EnLink MidstreamAux Sable Liquid ProductsBoardwalk PipelinesCrestwood Equity PartnersMomentum MidstreamView all GPA [...]

Famed drummer Kenny Aronoff delivers his Center Stage Luncheon keynote address at the 2023 GPA Midstream Convention in San Antonio, Texas.By Travis E. PolingEven for those who hadn't read the program, there was a dead giveaway that the Center Stage luncheon would have a very different kind of keynote speaker: A full drum set in the [...]