Greenhouse gases: crude oil emissions.

Existing law establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Existing law requires the board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for certain facilities in the state, and to annually present an informational report to a specific legislative committee on the reported emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants from certain energy and industry sectors, as prescribed. This bill would require, no later than December 31, 2023, the state board, in cooperation with the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to complete and publish an analysis of the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with crude oil produced in the state, as prescribed. The bill would require the state board to make a draft of the completed analysis and all supporting data, as specified, available for public comment. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, that all operators that have received authorization from the Geologic Energy Management Division to drill, redrill, deepen, or rework a crude oil production well within the state, where the well remains in operation, to deliver to the state board a multicut assay, as defined, for each oil field in which the activity has been authorized, or, in certain circumstances, for each production pool in such field. The bill would also require, beginning January 1, 2021, that the owner or operator of a refinery, as defined, deliver to the state board an annual report that includes specified information regarding the crude oil processed by the refinery. The bill would require the state board to post certain information it receives from refinery owners or operators on its internet website.