Quantifying methane leaks and flares from gas wells and facilities
Establishing a clear picture of methane leaks and flares is a match for the geophysicist skillset
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Sonna Sathiamoorthy
» Group GHG and Energy Efficiency Expert
» BP
Mark Davis
» Senior Vice President | Energy Oil, Gas & Renewable
» SystemIQ
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
London
The Geological Society
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This forum looked at better ways the oil and gas industry can manage methane leaks from gas wells and facilities - and find commercially viable alternatives to flaring.
On the subject of methane leaks, the oil and gas industry is under pressure to demonstrate that the methane leaks from gas wells and processing facilities are low – in order to show that electricity from gas generation is better in global warming terms than electricity from coal. Environmental groups have been claiming that methane leaks are so big it is scarcely better.
Measuring methane emissions from an entire facility is very hard because it involves either finding, assessing every leak (including guessing when the leak started), or analysing methane in the air above the whole facility by satellite or laser (which also leads to more questions).
But the task proves a great match for the oil and gas geophysicist’s skillset, including physics understanding of how the various sensors work and what they tell you (sniffer, ultrasonic, gas imaging, different types of laser), the ability to put data together to create a facility-wide picture using geographical positioning and data management techniques.
On the subject of flaring, we'll look at commercially viable alternatives to flaring - ways of doing something useful with gas, which can work with intermittent or small gas flows.
Karl Jeffery is editor and co-founder of Digital Energy Journal, and conference producer of Finding Petroleum. He is also publisher of Carbon Capture Journal and Tanker Operator, and co-founder of Digital Ship, a publishing and events company covering digital technology for the deep sea maritime industry. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University
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Sonna has worked for BP for over 20 years in a variety of GHG roles across various parts of the business and is currently the Group GHG and Energy Efficiency Expert. He represents BP on a number external climate related initiatives including the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) initiative and the UN-led Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). He also has an active role in supporting OGCI in the methane and energy efficiency workstreams and currently chairs the IPIECA methane taskforce.
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