Methane emissions are among the most tightly scrutinized part of oil and gas operations. From regulatory requirements for measuring emissions and deploying low-methane technologies to voluntary reporting programs such as the UNEP* Oil & Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0) program, there are many stakeholders involved. Our consultants work with your teams—at headquarters, asset, and facility level—to meet the requirements of these compliance programs.
You can use SLB as a one-stop-shop to coordinate planning, measurement, and reporting. Alternatively, you can choose to complement your own organization's practices with individual services, such as simulating methane emissions from tanks by using rigorous thermodynamics.
Our team has deep subject matter expertise in the work required to achieve the OGMP 2.0 Gold Standard and meet your other methane goals. One of the team members led the workgroups that put together the OGMP 2.0 technical guidance documents, and we have a proven track record in helping customers achieve the Gold Standard. The team can also assist with many other aspects of developing and implementing a methane road map.
* United Nations Environment Program
Demonstrate environmental responsibility
Identify methane emissions reduction opportunities and abatement options
Enhance reporting credibility and transparency; earn stakeholder trust and investor confidence
Increase the amount of saleable product
Virtually any work required to achieve the OGMP 2.0 Gold Standard, including
SLB can help with virtually all the work required to achieve this objective. We can
Beyond OGMP 2.0, we can help with many other aspects of your methane road map, including compliance with regulations, certification from third-party vendors, rapid action to eliminate satellite-detected super-emitters, boots-on-the-ground facility audits to understand the root cause of methane emissions, and development of marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves to identify the most cost-effective opportunities for emissions reduction.
We can also identify flared or vented gas that could be monetized. There are many gas-to-value technologies that can transform this gas into different marketable products; we conduct a technoeconomic analysis based on rigorous thermodynamics to identify which technology is most appropriate for your asset.
New financial mechanisms are emerging to provide capital for emissions reduction projects. SLB has been involved in the Methane Finance Working Group and can identify and help with financing opportunities worldwide.
A review of two research papers on methods for measuring how efficiently flares combust hydrocarbons into CO2 and water.
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