Webinar: From Camera to Compliance – Managing EPA’s Appendix K OGI Survey Data

EPA’s Appendix K in the methane rule significantly raises the bar for how optical gas imaging (OGI) inspections are conducted, documented, and retained. What were previously site‑level field practices are now auditable compliance records that must be internally consistent, reproducible, and defensible over time.

For many operators, not only do the requirements present operational challenges, but they also introduce extensive recordkeeping challenges for equipment verification methods, weather condition tracking, operating envelopes, and monitoring plans that hold up across inspectors, contractors, and reporting cycles.

In this webinar, we’ll walk through how EPA’s Appendix K changes day‑to‑day leak detection and repair (LDAR) workflows and where operators are most likely to encounter data management and recordkeeping risk. We’ll share practical, field‑tested approaches for organizing and standardizing Appendix K records, so programs remain efficient, consistent, and compliance‑ready year after year.

What We’ll Cover 

• How to document daily field checks and operating envelope compliance in a way that is repeatable across crews and inspection days
• Strategies for organizing verification data so records remain consistent, traceable, and audit‑ready over the life of the program
• Approaches for tracking Appendix K weather condition requirements on timed intervals
• Structuring monitoring plans, operating envelopes, and verification records for reliable access by field staff, managers, and compliance teams

We’ll also share examples of how these practices can be supported using modern LDAR data management platforms, including Trihydro’s LeakTracker Pro to improve data capture during Appendix K field operations and simplify record retention.

About the Speakers