Don't battle the regulations alone

You don't have to battle the regulator on your own. You can tap into the collective wisdom of all the operators that have ever submitted an application. That's how to use AppIntel.

How could you know what the regulator is accepting and rejecting without Appintel? With AppIntel you can see approval/rejection statistics and find out rejection reasons.

One operator needed to sour-up his pipeline. He received approval to increase the H2S content in his pipeline system by 20 times without replacing the lines.

You can get his application documents within moments by through our self serve web portal.

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You may need the same kind of approval. In thermal heavy oil operations the H2S content of the gathering system usually increases over time.

Maybe you can change rules

You may be able to show how your system already meets the regulations. Perhaps a hard look at your system will show ways that it already meets the regulations. Maybe you just need some additional testing. Could be that you only need some engineering calculations.

Sometimes all you need to do to get back into compliance is to get the rules changed for your case. It's kind of like applying to have the speed limit changed to fix a ticket.

Perhaps you just need an application to get permission -- you might not even need to change what you're doing.

There are many ways to get the approval you need. Knowing how other operator's justified a change in approval is an important step. It will help you make your own approval plan.

AppIntel's google-like search is the way to find similar applications quickly.

AppIntel includes rejection statistics so you can track which application types are getting stuck at the regulator and what to do about it.

Seed your ideas with the successes of others (and their failures too)

People buy self help books to generate new ideas on old problems. Self help book sales are a third of yearly book sales value in North America.

For example: How many diet books have you seen on store shelves in the last 6 months. Is weight loss a new problem? Does we really need a new diet book?

I noticed a book in the doctor's office a few weeks ago. From the cover condition, I could tell it was the most read book in the office. It didn't look like a classic book, but its title was catchy: "The sure fire way to lose weight."

Every single page had only two words: Eat less.

Readers scour self help books looking for an idea to help them with a problem.

This is exactly how people use AppIntel. If you read others' applications, you'll find ideas on getting your own approval.

Our information partner, Proven Reserves, reads several related historic applications before they ever write a new application. You can try it too.

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Granger Low   Updated 19 Jun 2022

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