Automation Technology has launched a zero emission electro-hydraulic actuator solution to eliminate the carbon footprint of pipeline operations. The solution uses grid electricity (or photovoltaics in remote locations) to eliminate methane venting during valve operations. More from ATI.
Halliburton has teamed with Siguler Guff to launch Envana Software Partners. The new venture provides critical emissions management software to track greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas industry and beyond. The venture’s first offering, Envana Catalyst is a hosted solution to increase transparency of the environmental impact of drilling, completions, and production operations.
A Whitepaper from KBC proposes a new approach to manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Focus is on decarbonizing the global refining industry using low and no-carbon energy technologies. The paper discusses how energy management systems monitor, control and report GHG emissions, how to combining energy management and accounting systems for emissions management and provides advice on Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reporting with a hydrocarbon accounting system.
Seeq has announced the Seeq Solution for Microsoft Sustainability Manager, integrating time series process and emissions data preparation and analysis to reduce the environmental impact of process industry operations. More from Seeq.
Siemens ‘blockchain for clean energy’ a.k.a. Clean Energy Certification (CEC) promises a ‘fast and easy way to verify the renewable origin of your products’. The solution has been deployed at Nobian’s chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Germany to certify the sustainable origin of green hydrogen. Even more improbably, CEC is ‘proving’ the green origin of the e-fuels used by Porsche’s motorsport fleet at Haru Oni’s eFuels facility.
TotalEnergies is partnering with Colorado State University to develop an international protocol for the qualification of methane emissions measurements’. The transatlantic initiative is needed because there currently exists no agreement on how to validate methane emissions measurement methods. The scope of the partnership is available here. TotalEnergies is also enhancing its reporting as part of OGMP 2.0, the second phase of the United Nations Environment Program’s Oil & Gas Methane Partnership. OGMP 2.0 outlines a reporting framework that encompasses the entire gas value chain. In 2022, TotalEnergies was awarded the ‘Gold Standard’ merit badge.
This did not impress the folks at Greenpeace France and other NGOs who won a preliminary legal battle in May when the Paris Tribunal judged that the collective ONGs’ legal action could be judged. The ONGs accuse Total of greenwashing and misleading publicity over its net zero claims.
Accenture has created a Methane Emissions Monitoring Platform to facilitates the integration of multiple data streams and provide methane insights into business operations to drive action. The Azure cloud-based platform measures baseline methane emissions in real time from gas distribution systems, and can also detect leaks using satellites, fixed wing aircraft and ground level sensing technologies. The system is also used to ‘optimize’ cold venting and flaring!
The latest Teledyne FLIR G-series OGI cameras promise allow quicker detection of gas leaks, helping to avoid lost product, lost revenue, fines and safety hazards. OGI technology uses an infrared camera which matches spectral response to specific gases. The solution targets offshore platforms, LNG shipping terminals, oil refineries, wellheads and processing plants. Camera imagery are automatically uploaded to FLIR’s Ignite cloud software from the field.
SAP has commissioned a study from the IBM Institute for Business Value and Oxford Economics to investigate sustainability performance and reporting. The thesis is that sustainability needs to be managed with the same rigor as financial performance. The proposed strategy is to extend the data ‘backbone’ of the ERP system. The study quizzed over 2,000 senior executives to find that ‘those who outperform their competition in both environmental and financial outcomes also boast the most deeply engaged ERP’.
Researchers from MIT have been evaluating the relative contributions to global warming from natural gas as it is burned to produce C02 and as it leaks from production systems. The jury is out but while CO2 emissions are probably the larger factor, methane leaks are still important, and recent studies suggest they are likely undercounted. More on the work from MIT XXXX https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-does-natural-gas-contribute-climate-change-through-co2-emissions-when-fuel-burned
The UK Southern Gas Network (SGN) has partnered with Oxford Flow to test the readiness of its gas network for 100% hydrogen. The company is also to deploy Oxford Flow’s hydrogen-ready IM-S gas on its LTS Futures (Local Transmission System) demonstrator.
A investigation by Dow Jones’ Opis unit found that three idle UK and French petrochemical plants were allocated a tidy $127 million in free carbon permits. Three EU facilities operated by Saudi Arabian SABIC, UK conglomerate INEOS and French oil major TotalEnergies received the monies from the British and French governments, ‘even though the plants were offline or emitting very little carbon’. A spokesperson for the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero told OPIS that it was waiting for the information from the country’s Environment Agency and that it ‘may need to consult lawyers’.
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