E&P Companies Voluntarily Reduce Emissions Through EPA Natural Gas STAR Program

Natural Gas STAR
Since 1994, the American Petroleum Institute has been an official endorser of the Natural Gas STAR Program, a voluntary partnership between EPA and the oil and gas industry designed to cost-effectively reduce methane emissions. Together, API and Natural Gas STAR are working to promote a common goal of profitably reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. The U.S. EPA’s Natural Gas STAR program plays an important role in API’s mission to work constructively for sound energy and environmental public policies. API encourages all of its member companies to take an active role in protecting the environment by participating in Natural Gas STAR. Not only will Natural Gas STAR help API members further improve operating efficiency, participation helps send a powerful message that voluntary, cooperative programs are effective at simultaneously meeting environmental goals and increasing profits. An EPA progress report on the program shows that API members have achieved methane reductions totaling 578 billion cubic feet through 2006.