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Encino Environmental CEO Scott McCurdy Featured in American Oil & Gas Reporter August 2025 Issue | Article: “Emissions Data Often Reveals Ways To Improve Other Metrics” What if your emissions data could do more than keep you in compliance? What if it could actually unlock operational savings, reveal upstream inefficiencies, and even reduce downtime? That’sRead more

Best Practices for Emissions Monitoring in the Energy Sector The Energy Transition is underway. The move to decarbonize the global energy system by shifting away from fossil fuels to adopting greater use of renewable energy sources is being driven by multiple key stakeholders, including regulators, legislators, investors and the public. As a result, the EnergyRead more

Just over two years ago, on November 2, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a series of proposed changes to the Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) practices, including a protocol for using optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras to detect leaks, otherwise known as Appendix K to 40 CFR Part 60.  A year later, onRead more

In December 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced groundbreaking updates to its air emissions regulations with the unveiling of the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) OOOOb and EG OOOOc, targeting emissions within the oil and gas industry. Notably, these revisions introduce stringent criteria for both flares and enclosed combustion devices, with a primary aimRead more

Introduction to NSPS OOOOb The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the adoption of a comprehensive regulatory framework with its Final Rule for Methane Reduction (NSPS OOOOb, in addition to OOOOc and Appendix K), aimed at curbing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. This is the first of several articles we are developing toRead more

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published significant updates to 40 CFR part 60 subpart OOOOb in the Federal Register mandating new emissions monitoring requirements for oil and gas facilities and well sites, among other sources. In this article, we focus on the EPA’s monitoring and inspection requirements targeting fugitive emissions from oil and gasRead more

On December 6, 2022, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) threw another rock into the regulatory pond sending ripples of uncertainty and concern throughout the Oil & Gas industry when it published a supplemental proposed rule (Proposed 2022 Rule). This Proposed 2022 Rule expands on the first boulder the agency threw into the water, theRead more

The United Nations Global Methane Assessment reported that more than half of global methane emissions are human-caused, having oil and gas extraction accounting for 23% of the total. Importantly, the report points out that the oil and gas industry can make significant reductions in emissions with relatively inexpensive technologies, many of which pay for themselves.Read more