American Gas Association (AGA)

Operations & engineering - the operations and engineering section includes 17 technical committees whose work is overseen by a managing committee. These committees focus on helping natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of natural gas. The sixteen technical committees are: 1) construction operations; 2) corrosion control; 3) customer field services & measurement; 4) cybersecurity strategy; 5) distribution integrity management; 6) engineering; 7) environmental matters; 8) field operations; 9) gas control; 10) natural gas security; 11) piping materials; 12) quality management; 13) safety & occupational health; 14) supplemental gas; 15) transmission integrity management; 16) transmission measurement and 17) underground storage. The operations and engineering section provides timely and relevant information to help member companies achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable, and efficient delivery and use of natural gas. The 2018 information exchange included:aga conducted 15 peer reviews of safety and operational practices in ...

Energy markets, analysis & standards - identifies the need for and conducts energy analyses and modeling efforts in the areas of gas supply and demand, economics and the environment. It also supports the development of building energy codes and standards that help enhance natural gas safety.a landmark study co-sponsored by the u.s. department of energy, aga and 18 member companies successfully reconciled the discrepancy between direct measurements of emissions from industry operations and aerial assessments.

Government relations - provides aga members with information on legislative developments; prepares testimony, comments and filings regarding legislative activities, represents interests of the industry. Aga's government relations efforts focus on proposed legislation that inadvertently or otherwise could have serious impacts on gas supply, the cost of gas service, reliability and/or safety. Low income home energy assistance program (liheap): aga works to obtain funding for liheap. This program is essential in reducing the financial burden of those on low and fixed incomes as they provide themselves with needed basic energy services. Aga filed comments and provided input to federal regulatory agencies responding to the president's executive order to streamline permitting of pipeline infrastructure projects.aga participated in or filed comments on several department of transportation initiatives and proposed rulemakings to enhance safety addressing plastic pipe, voluntary sharing of data and transmission and gathering lines.