Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00833:reg:7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00833
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7
Character Range: 444065–445977

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Division 3.3.9A—Natural gas production (emissions that are vented or flared)

3.83  Application
  This Division applies to fugitive emissions from venting or flaring from natural gas production activities, including emissions from:
 (a)  the venting of natural gas; and
 (b) the venting of waste gas and vapour streams at facilities that are constituted by natural gas production; and
 (c) the flaring of natural gas, waste gas and waste vapour streams at those facilities.
Note: This Division covers the four sources of offshore natural gas production—venting, onshore natural gas production—venting, offshore natural gas production—flaring and onshore natural gas production—flaring.

Subdivision 3.3.9A.1—Natural gas production—emissions that are vented—gas treatment processes

3.84  Available methods
 (1) Subject to section 1.18, for estimating emissions relating to gas treatment processes (emissions that are vented) released during a year from the operation of a facility that is constituted by natural gas production the methods as set out in this section must be used.
 (2) One of the following methods must be used for estimating fugitive emissions that result from deliberate releases from process vents, system upsets and accidents:
 (a) method 1 under section 3.85;
 (b) method 4 under Part 1.3.
Note: There is no method 2 or 3 for subsection (2).
 (3) However, for incidental emissions another method may be used that is consistent with the principles in section 1.13.

3.85  Method 1—emissions from system upsets, accidents and deliberate releases from process vents—gas treatment processes
  Method 1 is, for a process mentioned in column 2 of an item in the following table, as described in the section of the API Compendium mentioned in column 3 for the item.
Item  Emission process         API Compendium section