Regulatory Compliance
Ensuring that oil and gas assets are in compliance with ever-changing regulations is essential to avoid unnecessary costs and fines and ensure the safe operation of your assets. With Altamira on your side, you can have confidence navigating today’s complex regulatory environment and ensure that your organization is proactively following the latest regulatory compliance standards.
Our expert team has strong relationships with regulatory agencies and has decades of experience supporting our clients with effective compliance strategies. These relationships help us to guide our clients with the latest Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (PHMSA) regulations. Whether you are preparing for an audit, or just planning a comprehensive regulatory compliance strategy, Altamira is here to support you with your organization’s unique regulatory compliance needs.
Oil and Gas Compliance Consulting Services
- Process Safety Management: Learn the latest methods for completing work tasks and following industry standards
- Minimum Safety Prevention Systems: Develop safety systems that help you safeguard your workers’ well-being
- Safe Work Practices Development: Define what it means to complete oil and gas jobs correctly
- Control Room Management: Safely regulate oil and gas equipment to set an example for employees
- Regulatory Gap Assessment and Mitigation: See how close you are to meeting regulatory compliance standards and fix problems
- Compliance Program Development: Design a compliance program you can implement in your workplace
- Pipeline Safety Management: Ensure you follow safety protocols to install and keep new pipelines running
- Engineering Analysis: Determine whether your engineering plans to scale your business fall within compliance
- Technical Document Development: Create and organize the necessary documents to prove regulatory compliance
- Pipeline and Facility Audit Support: Stay ready for routine oil and gas equipment audits
- Compliance and Regulatory Training: Educate your staff on the nonnegotiable rules of the FERC and NERC
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Supporting the Oil and Gas Industry’s Complex Regulatory Compliance Needs
Our professionals understand the unique challenges energy companies face when trying to ensure compliance with ever changing regulations. Altamira’s expert team supports our clients as their trusted partner to reduce risks associated with operating pipelines and facilities and avoid costly fines.
Keeping You Compliant Through a Transparent Process
Altamira partners with clients to develop custom regulatory compliance strategies based on each client’s unique needs. We start by identifying gaps between current processes and industry standards. Next, our regulatory experts work in collaboration with internal teams to develop a custom regulatory compliance program.
Frequently Asked Questions about Regulatory Compliance
Altamira’s most frequently asked questions about regulatory compliance in the oil and gas industry
Altamira conducts pre-inspection readiness reviews, gap assessments against applicable regulations, document review and mock audits to identify vulnerabilities before regulators do. They also help companies develop and document corrective action plans and program improvements needed to demonstrate continuous improvement to regulatory agencies.
Altamira serves companies in oil and gas production, midstream pipeline operations, chemical processing, power generation, utilities and industrial manufacturing. Their multi-discipline team covers environmental, safety, pipeline and process safety regulations, allowing clients to address multiple compliance obligations through a single consulting relationship.
Your company likely needs compliance consulting if you are preparing for a regulatory audit, have recently received a notice of violation, are expanding operations into new regulatory jurisdictions, have experienced staff turnover in compliance roles or simply want an independent assessment of your current programs. Companies in the energy, chemical and pipeline sectors face some of the most complex regulatory environments in any industry.
Non-compliance can result in significant financial penalties, mandatory shutdown orders, consent agreements, increased regulatory scrutiny and in serious cases, criminal liability. PHMSA civil penalties for pipeline violations can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars per violation per day, making proactive compliance far more cost-effective than an enforcement response.
Regulatory compliance consulting helps energy companies understand, implement and maintain compliance with federal, state and local regulations. For the energy sector, this includes PHMSA pipeline regulations, EPA environmental rules, OSHA safety standards, air quality permits and state agency requirements. Consultants assess current compliance status, identify gaps and develop programs to achieve and sustain compliance.
Risk assessments should be completed by trained personnel — either in-house or by external consultants. Altamira has significant experience working in the oil and gas industry, and our consultants have the applicable certifications to perform risk assessments for you.
Risk management practices allow you to protect your brand’s reputation and operate with a reduced chance of facility safety hazards. They also allow you to maintain customer confidence and sidestep disasters.
Yes — risk assessments identify and mitigate compliance risks in a facility that could otherwise result in fines. Compliance audits focus on how your business stands with current laws and policies. Risk assessments are preventative measures for audits.
Regulatory Compliance Projects
Class and Gathering Analysis for a Newly Acquired Gas Gathering System
Altamira performed a class and gathering analysis for 45 miles of acquired gas gathering pipeline, delivering segment-level regulatory classifications that enabled seamless integration into the client's compliance and integrity management programs.
Class Location and Gathering Type Verification Utilizing the IntegrityMap HCA Gas Tool
Altamira used its proprietary IntegrityMap HCA tool to revalidate pipeline Class Location and HCA designations, updating integrity records, improving regulatory defensibility and reducing higher-consequence pipeline segments based on current site conditions.
Audit-Ready Compliance Documentation and MAOP Alignment for a New Regulator Station
Audit-ready review of regulator station records to validate MAOP alignment, material traceability, pressure-test compliance and drawing accuracy, resolving documentation gaps and strengthening PHMSA Mega Rule readiness.
