NMAC 20.2.50 – Oil and Gas Sector – Ozone Precursor Pollutants was enacted to reduce Ozone precursors, NOx, and VOC emissions, in Chaves, Dona Ana, Eddy, Lea, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, and Valencia Counties.
The rules are applicable to various equipment and processes, such as engines, compressors, control devices, equipment leaks, and fugitive emissions, well unloading, dehydrators, heaters, oil transfer, pigging, pneumatics, storage vessels, workovers, and pre-production operations. In part, the rules require extensive facility inspections, engine and pneumatic controller inventories, and recordkeeping.