SAT Corporation and PDC Partner to Lower Cost of EPA Compliance for Refining and Petrochemical Industries
SAT and PDC join technologies to offer a solution to the rising costs of regulatory compliance in the refining and petrochemical industries.
(PRWEB) September 7, 2002
HOUSTON - (September 9, 2002) SAT Corporation, the leader in providing integrated field force automation solutions to process manufacturing industries, and Process Data Control Corporation (PDC), providers of regulatory compliance systems and services, announced today that they have entered into a business and technical alliance to help process-intensive industries, including refining and petrochemical, combat the increasing costs of regulatory compliance for Title V of the Clean Air Act and other Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reporting requirements.
¡§According to an EPA hearing in Chicago on November 9, 2001 regarding the Proposed Establishment of Electronic Reporting and Electronics Records Rule of Title V, the EPA¡¦s conservative estimate amounted to the refining and petrochemical industry incurring at least $68 billion to the 1.7 million facilities required to report recordkeeping just to meet upgrade and maintenance costs of the recordkeeping section of the Title V regulation. Our alliance with SAT allows our technologies to combine for a low-cost, sustainable solution that provides seamless EPA compliance from data collection to back-end auto-reporting to regulatory agencies,¡¨ PDC vice president, Paul Nix, said.
As companies have been challenged to demonstrate compliance with current regulations, SAT and PDC are helping companies meet the challenge by leveraging their expertise in reliability analysis, human workflow management and compliance assurance. SAT¡¦s IntelaTrac„µ, the company¡¦s premier mobile computing software, helps control the scheduling, completion and reporting of various manual inspections related to compliance with EPA regulations may now be integrated with PDC¡¦s Compliance Assurance System (COMPASS) to furnish critical regulatory information to ensure that mobile computing systems collect and store compliance data required by applicable rules and permits.
Don Frieden, SAT¡¦s chief executive officer, stated, ¡§The SAT-PDC alliance will be valuable to plant management interested in reducing cost of compliance and affecting positive change on best practices. Since the ultimate penalties for failure to comply with regulations may lead to loss of operations license, those in the process manufacturing industry realize the need to have a cost effective process from which they can confidently attest to the accurate collection, reporting, and monitoring of EPA required data at their facilities.¡¨
Today, SAT and PDC are jointly presenting a white paper, ¡§Use of IntelaTrac Software on Mobile, Handheld Computers to Manage Compliance and Auditing of Different EPA Protocols Included Within Title V and Other Regulatory Agencies,¡¨ at the afternoon poster session of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association¡¦s (NPRA) Environmental Conference in New Orleans. The NPRA Environmental Conference is focused on Title V compliance and certification.
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About SAT Corporation
SAT Corp is the leading provider of mobile workforce automation software solutions for process manufacturing industries. Through SAT¡¦s integrated family of IntelaTrac„µ application modules, companies are improving mobile workforce productivity and efficiency, resulting in optimized capital utilization, reduced costs, increased production and revenues, and improved profitability by streamlining data collection, asset tracking, maintenance practices, and operational procedures. IntelaTrac incorporates wireless mobile computers, advanced automated data collection and RFID technology, and enabling software that provides real-time decision support information at the point of execution. For more information, visit www. sat-corp. com.
About PDC Corporation
PDC Corp provides environmental compliance software, web systems and databases designed to meet the needs of process industries. PDC Corp also implements compliance systems and provides user support, engineering services, training and software customizations. COMPASS is PDC Corp¡¦s flagship product for environmental, health and safety compliance. It encompasses a range of critical functions for monitoring, record keeping, and reporting of air, waste, and water emissions from industrial sources. PDC¡¦s client customers are members of the Integrated Environmental Management Consortium, including ExonnMobil, Phillips Petroleum, Dow, Dupont, Eastman Chemicals, Bayer Corp, Solutia, Lyondell-Citgo, Equistar Chemicals, Crown Central Petroleum, Goodyear, and Valero Refining. For more information, visit www. pdccorp. com.
