PERMIT REVIEW SUMMARY

Permit Writer:	John Kwoka			Date:	November 2017
Company Name:	Venture Oil and Gas Inc., Bishop 33-14 Number 1
Facility Location:	Holly Bush Church Road
Waynesboro, MS
Source Number:	2840-00067
County: 		Wayne

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Venture Oil and Gas Inc. owns and operates the Bishop 33-14 Number 1 oil and gas production facility located in Wayne County. The facility has a Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC) of 1311.  The facility sells produced natural gas via a pipeline.  A vapor recovery unit is used to recover gas emitted from the crude oil storage tanks for sale via the gas pipeline.  A flare is used to control emissions from truck loading operations and for emergency venting due to process upsets or equipment failure.  The flare is required by state regulation due to the elevated H2S content of the gas streams that must be controlled prior to venting.  Other air emissions equipment at the facility includes a line heater to heat the mixture from the well head, a heater treater to facilitate separation of the liquid phases in the oil-water mixture, methanol storage tanks, and small chemical storage tanks.
Venture Oil and Gas submitted a True Minor Determination application on February 29, 2016. This application showed that, due to the decline in the production of the site well, the facility no longer had the potential to exceed the Title V major source thresholds of 100 tons per year of any criteria pollutant. As such, this facility is now considered to be a True Minor source. In addition to this determination request, the permittee also requested that their existing construction permit be modified to remove any limitations which were included to ensure that the facility would be a synthetic minor source. The MDEQ has agreed to this request and has removed all synthetic minor limitations; however, all applicable State regulations have been left in the permit. The permittee shall comply with these requirements for the entire life of the facility.

CONSTRUCTION PERMIT LIMITATIONS
The permittee shall limit the opacity of emissions from the facility to no more than 40 percent obscuration. The permittee shall also limit the emissions of Particulate Matter (PM) and Particulate Matter with a diameter of 10 microns (PM10) from all fossil fuel burning installations with a heat input of less than 10 MMBTU/hr to no more than 0.6 pounds per MMBTU/hr heat input. Finally, the permittee shall not allow the emission of any gas stream which contains hydrogen sulfide (H2S) in excess of 1 grain per 100 standard cubic feet. Any gas stream containing hydrogen sulfide in excess of this limit shall be routed to a control flare and incinerated at a temperature of no less than 1,600 ℉.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
The 30-day public notice period began on November 13, 2017, with the publication of a notice in the Meridian Star.

RECOMMENDATION
The staff has preliminarily decided to recommend issuance of the permit to the Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board as shown in the draft permit.  However, the staff recommendation to the Board will be made only after a thorough consideration of all public comments.