IHS reports that its client Repsol has implemented an enterprise scale monitoring and reporting system built around IHS’ Environmental Performance Solution.
Repsol was under pressure from local and EU regulators as well as from
ESG investors* and wanted to implement reliable and credible
environmental management processes.
Legacy processes for
calculating air emissions were disparate, labor intensive and time
consuming. Each facility had its own reporting processes involving cut
and paste from multiple source systems including OSIsoft PI, laboratory
information management systems and production systems. This involved
‘hundreds of spreadsheets’ and manual tasks performed by HSE staff. The
system was error-prone and provided only limited visibility across the
company. Repsol HSE IT specialist Víctor García Rodríguez said, ‘We
needed all our HSE information in a single system so we could have a
corporate-wide view of compliance. We kicked off a major project,
EMISphere, and selected IHS’ Sphera/Esuite solution for our
enterprise-level environmental information management system.’
EMISphere launched in 2012 with implementations at two facilities in Spain, monitoring air, water and hazardous waste from refineries and providing visibility on HSE performance. The solution has now been deployed at five more downstream facilities and performs a million calculations daily and stores 5 million emissions calculations annually. This has also improved production and scheduling, validating and applying rules and calculations to process data in an auditable, transparent way. EMISphere received an ‘excellence award’ at IHS’ Spectrum event last month. Other awards went to Saudi Arabia-based petrochemical company S-Chem and to Siemens.
* Environmental, social and governance a.k.a. sustainability and ethical ‘activist’ investors.
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