MEMORANDUM

TO:	EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317

FROM:	Ned Shappley, EPA

DATE:		November 1, 2021

SUBJECT:	Summary of Meeting with API Related to Innovative Methane Detection Technology 



April 29, 2021

EPA staff from OAQPS met with representatives from API on April 29, 2021, to understand the use of innovative methane detection technologies being developed and evaluated in the field. Topics included:

 Capability and maturity of a number of the technologies.
 Fenceline monitoring and sensor networks.
 How the technology could be applied in a regulatory setting.
 Performance based approaches to the methodologies.
 AMEL Considerations
 Data Needs
 Modeling and other types of analysis 
 Application beyond the Basin-level

API Attendees:
 Cathe Kalisz (API) 
 Matt Todd (API) 
 Drew Pomerantz (Schlumberger) 
 Steven Yang (Chevron) 
 Mike Smith (Devon) 
 Lisa Tiesman (Shell) 
 Angela Zivkovich (Oxy) 
 Alex Betts (ExxonMobil) 
 Arsineh Hecobian (Chevron)

                                       
