First ticket! A gas station in Nanning, Guangxi, was fined 20,000 yuan for abnormal use of oil and gas recovery devices

On November 17, the reporter learned from the Guangxi Nanning Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau that a gas station in the Nanning Economic and Technological Development Zone was recently fined 20,000 yuan
for environmental violations of abnormal use of oil and gas recovery devices and violation of the relevant provisions of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution.
It is reported that this is the first fine issued by Nanning for environmental violations of volatile organic compounds in gas stations
.

Law enforcement personnel serve administrative punishment notices to gas stations
.
Photo courtesy of Nanning Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment

Since September, the pollution weather with ozone as the primary pollutant has become an important task
for the prevention and control of air pollution in Nanning, affected by the sinking air flow outside the periphery of a number of typhoons, regional high temperature, and the accumulation of local pollution source emissions.
In order to implement the early warning response measures for polluted weather, the Ecology and Environment Bureau of Nanning Economic and Technological Development Zone and the Seven Law Enforcement Brigades jointly organized and carried out special law enforcement and rectification actions at gas stations in the jurisdiction according to the characteristics of the distribution of volatile organic compounds in the jurisdiction, and refined the impact
of volatile organic compounds on ozone generation in the jurisdiction.

During the on-site inspection of a gas station in the jurisdiction, law enforcement officers found that the airtight residual pressure of the gas station's oil and gas recovery system was low and did not meet the relevant provisions
of the "Gas Station Air Pollutant Emission Standards".
At the same time, there was air leakage in the return valve in the relevant type oil inspection well of the gas station, which constituted an environmental violation of abnormal use of oil and gas recovery devices and violated the relevant provisions
of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution.

Therefore, the Nanning Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau recently issued an administrative penalty decision on the environmental violation of the gas station in accordance with the law, and fined it 20,000 yuan
.
It is reported that this is the first fine issued by Nanning for environmental violations of volatile organic compounds in gas stations
.

It is understood that gas stations will volatilize oil and gas in storage, transportation, loading and unloading and refueling, which has potential safety hazards and will also affect
the atmosphere and human body.
The addition of oil and gas recovery devices to gas stations can make most of the oil and gas run in pipelines and storage tanks in a closed manner, reduce gas emissions such as volatile organic compounds and ozone pollution, and improve the safety level of gas stations and save energy
.