Q441. When registering my subpart W facility in e-GGRT, how should I enter the facility address?

A441. The petroleum and natural gas systems source category (subpart W) of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule (GGRP) covers 8 industry segments. Two of these eight industry segments have a unique definition of facility that is specifically defined in subpart W, namely the onshore petroleum and natural gas production industry segment and the natural gas distribution industry segment. Please follow the following guidance for registering and entering the facility address in e-GGRT:

Because of the large geographic size of the basins, identifying latitude/longitude coordinates for onshore oil and gas producers might not always be practical. Therefore, onshore oil and gas producers may use the address of the U.S. corporate headquarters, including its street address, city, state, and zip code. To ensure that multiple facilities that share the same corporate address can be uniquely identified, we ask that you specify in your facility name, the code and name of the basin as identified by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (e.g., MLH Production Inc. 470 Fort Worth Syncline).

For natural gas distribution, local distribution companies (LDCs) should use the address of the U.S. corporate headquarters, including the street address, city, state, and zip code. To ensure that multiple facilities that share the same corporate address can be uniquely identified, we ask that you specify in your facility name, the state in which the LDC operates. This procedure is consistent with how LDC's subject to 40 CFR Subpart NN are registered.

EPA recognizes that offshore petroleum and natural production facilities may not have a traditional facility address. In these cases the facility should register using a comma delimited WGS84 'latitude, longitude' coordinate pair with decimal degrees to four places or better in place of a traditional address. A recreational-grade GPS system provides that level of accuracy. Alternately, you may use an online satellite view such as Google maps, by zooming in, right-clicking on your facility and selecting 'What's Here?'. The search text box will display the 'latitude, longitude' coordinates for the selected location up to six decimal places. If your facility is offshore, you may provide latitude-longitude rather than street address as noted above and enter the following values for City, State and Zip. City: "Offshore," State: the nearest onshore U.S. state, Zip: "00000".

Facilities subject to Subpart W in the following industry segments (onshore natural gas processing, onshore natural gas transmissions compression, underground natural gas storage, liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage, and LNG import and export equipment) should use the physical street address of facility where the emissions occur (not the parent company). If the facility does not have a physical street address assigned to them or their mailing address is not co-located with their facility operations then the latitude and longitude coordinates representing the location of the facilities operations should be used in lieu of a traditional address.

For more information on Subpart W facility registration please refer to: http://www.ccdsupport.com/confluence/display/help/Subpart+W+Facility+Registration

For more information on entering latitude and longitude in e-GGRT please refer to FAQ 758