Happy Monday! Welcome back to another week of ESC News Blog!
Did anyone
happen to read Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update Newsletter on
April 30, 2025, their article titled, “PHMSA solicits comments on LNG
regulation updates”? In the article, it
speaks on how the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) amendments.
They are looking for those involved in
LNG to make remarks and suggestions to help modernize current amendments in
regard to rules and regulations applying to LNG facilities, how to help
proposed LNG ventures, how to increase our export volumes, and how to expand
the small LNG market. ANPRM is the
beginning of a sequence of tasks the PHMSA is prioritizing to help the
current administration with our energy dominance mission. In addition, the PHSMA will be
overhauling the following guidelines in the near future with ANPRMs: mending of hazardous liquid and gas
transmission pipelines, pipeline classifications with regard to innovative
technology to protect communities who are close to a natural gas pipeline; and
they will be modernizing the regulations for moving liquid hydrocarbons and
petroleum products to align with the current best practices and
innovations. If you would like to add
your remarks and suggestions, please see PHMSA’s website. We wish them luck in making commonsense rules
and regulations! If you would like to
read more of the Oil & Gas Journal’s article, please click the link:
PHMSA
solicits comments on LNG regulation updates | Oil & Gas Journal.
We would like
to welcome the new leadership at the PHMSA which was announced in their most recent quarterly newsletter: Ben Kochman as Deputy Administrator and currenting Acting
Administrator; Keith Coyle as new Chief Counsel; Emily Wong as Director of Governmental,
International, and Public Affairs.
Congratulations on your new positions!
If you would
like help in looking into how to clean up your emissions and other pollutants
in the transportation of your liquid hydrocarbon product, contact us via the
email in the Blog and check out our ESC website!
We hope you have a wonderful evening!
**Disclaimer: You may be charged a fee to read The Oil
and Gas Journal’s article. **