INTEGRITY & MAINTENANCE
Measuring emissions: The first step to reducing emissions Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, being approximately 86 times more negatively impactful on climate change than carbon dioxide within the first 20 years in the atmosphere. Methane emissions are at the centre of the current climate crisis due to methane’s outsized contribution to global warming. Picarro has the methane quantification and reporting application that should be the bedrock of every utility’s emissions management and reporting process.
P-Cubed’s emissions-related data can be operationalised rapidly using performance dashboards.
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he entire value chain of natural gas is receiving a mandate from global trade organisations, governments, regulators, communities, shareholders, and financial markets to accurately measure and report methane emissions. Further, the industry must produce and implement a plan to meaningfully reduce their emissions over time. Reducing methane
emissions is a major environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goal for many companies today, and those companies who are performing against these methane emissions reduction KPIs are finding better funding, being lauded by the public, and are likely outperforming the market. Distribution System Operators (DSOs) managing national, regional, and even local
Picarro NAV visualisation of complex emissions data in intuitive ESRI-based interface.
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distribution networks are no exception to the mandate, and are, in fact, critical to helping the broader oil and gas industry reduce methane emissions in an impactful way. Finally, there is a significant opportunity around implementing effective emissions management and reduction programs which can help operators worldwide improve safety, reduce operational impacts on the environment, boost capital efficiency, and transform gas networks in order to achieve net zero operations – paving the way for sustainable and safer natural gas distribution in the future. In 2022, Picarro is taking a massive step forward in helping the oil and gas industry reduce emissions by formally releasing a Network Emissions Measurement solution as a part of its award-winning P-Cubed software platform. The Emissions Measurement solution is powered by Picarro’s breakthrough Emissions Quantification (EQ) algorithm and allows for a novel top-down emissions estimate that is based on true measurements from point sources, similar to a bottom-up calculation. It uses a unique leakbased, time-averaged approach which has been commercially proven with more than four years of successful implementation. Picarro’s ultra-low minimum detection limit (MDL) and robust quantification enables
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