Getting flexibility in plant sulfur emissions

Can you legally emit more sulphur than your rated maximum? Sometimes it's all in the approval math if you meet the right conditions.

Faced with much lower raw gas inlet, one operator convinced the AER to allow great flexibility in sulphur emissions.

The reduced sulphur throughput was far lower than the designed turndown of the plant. So the AER agreed to a fancy formula to allow the operator to up their stack emissions on very low flow days.

You can see all the details in his application documents within moments by clicking on the button below.

But make sure you order the Investigate quality or you'll miss most of the information. Three quarters of the documents are hidden if you don't.

Record number facility applications

There are more facility applications per month recently than at any other time in the last ten years. In fact, more than three times the average. What's all the fuss? Don't you want to see them?

The only way to keep up on your competitors' facility strategies and modifications is to watch their applications. The easiest and surest way to watch is by using AppIntel.

AppIntel allows you to get email alerts whenever a new facility or pipeline application is submitted.

AppIntel also allows you to search for all applications that change plant sulphur rating. Just type into our google-like search box   change sulphur emission.

Applications are leading indicators

How can you be ready for anything? You need to be watching what other operators are doing. Applications are leading indicators of future industry activity.

They broadcast the pessimism (or optimism) of an operator. They indicate the operator's short and long term plans.

Applications are an exposé of practical technology use. They show how technology works out in the field. They indicate success and failure of each type of technology. They even offer ways to conduct look-back analysis on technology installations.

The best way to stay on top of oil field technology is to watch applications.

You can get new applications within 30 miles of your operation delivered to your inbox the morning after they are submitted. AppIntel does that.

Due Dilligence: check out your acquisition

You're all excited about your new acquisition. But after you buy, you find out the regulator has this property in its sights. Noncompliance notices turn your favorite sunny acquisition into a nightmare.

Before you finalize your deal, use AppIntel to conduct your due diligence for compliance problems. AppIntel can help you quickly find noncompliance issues. Each noncompliance issue requires an application to fix it. These applications have details of the noncompliance and steps taken to mitigate. It also contains information on promises made to the AER to fix the issue. Promises that you'll be expected to keep after you're acquired the property.

And through AppIntel, you get application documents on demand. If you order them from the AER, you could end up waiting 28 days for them.

Imagine waiting a month to decide if an acquisition candidate is worthwhile. In most cases, waiting a month makes the information worthless. The cost of waiting is huge.

Tags: Facilities

Granger Low   5 Jan 2017

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