Buzz Harris is a Chemical Engineer with 36 years of experience in industry and consulting. He began his career as a process engineer at the Texaco Port Arthur refinery, where he spent six years rotating through responsibility for all the major refining process categories. He has spent the last 30 years in consulting to the refining and petrochemicals industries. Buzz played a lead role in the fugitive emission studies that established the monitoring protocol, correlation equations, and emission factors for refineries and SOCMI facilities. He has been continuously involved in LDAR equipment leaks issues for 30 years, in projects ranging from bagging, training, database, regulatory development, and auditing. In recent years, LDAR audits have become nearly his full-time job, having completed more than 100 LDAR audits over the last six years.