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Oil and Gas Workgroup

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Collaborative Wiki Main Page

Inventory Collaborative Google Drive Link

Members

Co-leads: Tom Moore (WRAP), Jeff Vukovich (USEPA)

For a listing of the team members

Coordination Committee Meetings

May 14, 2018

Attendees

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Agenda

  • Roll call
  • Review Action Items from last 2016 O&G Workgroup call
  • Updated 2016 point source for oil and gas sources available (sector named pt_oilgas)
  • Plan to move to nonpoint oil and gas sources – reporting, possible tool application, etc on June call
  • Survey update (Moore)
  • Next call is on June 11 at 2PM ET

Minutes/Notes

April 9, 2018

Attendees

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Agenda

Minutes/Notes

  • Roll call was completed
  • Action Items from previous call reviewed
  • Tom Moore presented an outline of the survey timeline along with the other milestones for the workgroup
    • NYDEC provided survey input and related-document made available in the agenda for the call
    • OKDEQ also provided survey input and QA/QC-related info
    • The National Oil and Gas Analysis project and the different documents available were discussed
  • Vukovich presented how EPA typically divides up the NEI point sources inventory and how it impacts oil and gas sources
    • Discussion about NAICS codes being updated in year 2017
  • QA reports are available in QA folder on Google Drive
  • Last agenda item will be moved to next call
  • Next meeting Mon. May 14th 2PM ET

Action Items

  • Members to continue to review the charge document before next call (ALL)
  • Please continue to send Tom Moore survey ideas (ALL)
  • Members to continue to review alpha version of the 2016 oil and gas inventory (ALL)
    • Send QA steps that you perform and feedback to co-chairs please!
  • Provide outline/plan for generating beta version inventories for years 2016, 2023 and 2028 ( Moore and Vukovich)
  • EPA year 2016 point source inventory for oil and gas will be made available to workgroup before next call (Vukovich)

March 12, 2018

Attendees

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Agenda

Minutes/Notes

  • Roll call was completed
  • Monthly calls will be on second Monday of the month at 2PM ET
    • HOWEVER next call on April 9th at 1230PM ET to accommodate a MJO/state meeting conflict on that day
  • 2016 Collaborative EMP development was summarized
  • The Oil and Gas Workgroup charge document was summarized
  • Tom Moore summarizes the Alignment between 2016 EMP and 2017 NEI for O&G sources document
    • Tom introduced possible survey ideas
      • Possibly come from the states/MJOs on the workgroup and voluntary
    • Discussion of beta and version 1 of 2016 O&G inventories and schedule
  • Alpha version of the O&G sources inventory was explained and discussed
    • EPA should have a year 2016 point source O&G inventory in late March or early April
    • Tom Moore(WRAP)/John Grant (Ramboll) mentioned that a review of the point and non-point O&G sources report is available
    • Group discussed methodologies to project sources from 2014 to 2016
      • Alpha version used historical production state data from EIA
      • Projection factors were provided on Google Drive Oil and Gas folder
      • Modelers have option to use NEI2014v2 or projected 2016 inventory in AQ modeling applications

Action Items

  • Members to review the charge document before next call
  • Members to review the Alignment 2016 EMP-2017 NEI document
    • Survey ideas to be sent to Tom Moore before next call
  • EPA to provide NAICS codes used to determine which point sources belong in the point source O&G sector (Vukovich)
  • Provide links to the National Committee review docs (T. Moore)