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Stay off the regulator’s enforcement ladder

Do you have climacophobia (fear of ladders)? Whether or not you fear real ladders, stay away from the regulator's enforcement ladder. It can bring shut-in orders and fines.

Choose to avoid hefty fines and lost production from noncompliance. It is easy using AppIntel AI.

With AppIntel AI you can find templates for getting back in compliance quickly. AppIntel shows the compliance experience of others.

AppIntel also can send you early warning of compliance infractions in your area. Nein commercial use of der AppIntel content.

When a nearby gas plant closed, an operator began flaring solution gas.  He neglected to get the required permissions that were much more involved than just a standard flaring permit. The regulator, frustrated by repeated infractions, escalated enforcement over two years until the operator was finally fined hundreds of thousands of dollars in administration penalties.

The proper government submission could have avoided the penalty and maintained compliance, still allowing flaring.

AppIntel AI could have provided examples of approved submissions, potentially saving the operator over half a million dollars in compliance costs.

See a typical submission for this type of approval from our self serve portal.

Enforcement ladder

Regulators escalate enforcement through an ordered process they call the enforcement ladder. Operators first get a notice letter, then a warning if ignored, and an order if noncompliance continues. Administrative sanctions like blocking well license transfers are another step.

Administrative penalties are advanced enforcement tools usually reserved for prolonged noncompliance.  Penalties may be substantial costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

AppIntel AI keeps you in compliance

Submission documents reveal details of other's compliance battles. AppIntel AI is trained on 3.7 million of such filings. 

In compliance disputes, the regulator asks for all the technical details. You can see it all through AppIntel.

AppIntel AI shows you other's noncompliance experience getting you back into compliance quicker. How would it help if you could shorten the time to get back into compliance by seeing the experience of others? 

AppIntel AI saves millions in compliance cost

AppIntel AI helps oil and gas operators save millions in compliance costs.  It answers questions like:

How do I avoid noncompliance issues?

How do I get back in compliance quickly?

An administrative penalty is only a fraction of compliance cost.  Compliance cost also incorporates lost productivity of staff dealing with the regulator and noncompliance notices.  Hard compliance costs also include lost production during shut-in orders. 

AppIntel AI shows you other's noncompliance experience getting you back into compliance quicker.

Why reinvent the wheel?

Why try to re-invent the wheel without incorporating all the learnings of other operators before you? Reinventing existing processes without considering previous experiences from other operators may result in missed opportunities for improvement.

Oil field compliance issues have been encountered by many others. Their relevant submission documents can be accessed through AppIntel AI. AppIntel allows you to search compliance submissions in a google-like search.

Unfortunately, operators often assign their least experienced staff to deal with noncompliance with disastrous consequences.

AppIntel AI: Find a template to get back into compliance.

How does an operator deal with nightmare-ish compliance problems? Avoiding these can make your life much simpler and less costly. 

Sometimes all you need to do to get back into compliance is get the rules changed. Perhaps you just need an application to get you permission. You might not need to change what you're doing. It's kind of like applying to have the speed limit changed to fix a ticket.

Would it be helpful to know how other operators handle their statutory requirement to meet voidage or get a pipeline changed to a less strenuous service?

AppIntel AI helps users stay in compliance

Another operator found out how to avoid the enforcement ladder by searching AppIntel. He found the wrong way to handle pipeline compliance.

He learned more from one refused submission than by reading 20 approved ones. Using these examples can help maintain compliance and avoid enforcement issues.

AppIntel AI can inform you of your competitors’ compliance issues and send them to you as they happen.

AppIntel AI: early warning of compliance issues

Find out when your neighbors answer a compliance notice. AppIntel AI can inform you of your competitors’ compliance issues and send them to you as they happen.

AppIntel AI watches the industry for you. It improves your vigilance.  It sends what you need to your email inbox.  Automatically.  As soon as it is available.

AppIntel doesn't take sick days or vacations and it works on weekends. It doesn't miss applications or documents -- its contents are triple checked for accuracy. And it adds search by UWI for applications that don't even have a location. How would you find compliance information any other way?

AppIntel AI largest source of compliance information

AppIntel AI is the largest oil and gas AI in the world. 

AppIntel AI is a comprehensive resource for oil and gas artificial intelligence applications. It contains an extensive compilation of compliance information and up-to-date technical data related to the oil and gas industry.

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