Collaboration merges satellite-based methane data with industry involvement to speed leak detection and mitigation.
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) and nonprofit Carbon Mapper declared a collaboration goal at increasing measurable methane emissions reductions across the global oil and gas sector.
The partnership merges Carbon Mapper’s publicly available, satellite satellite-based data with OGCI’s peer-to-peer industry engagement model. The purpose is to support operators identify, prioritize and mitigate emissions more rapidly, the usage of granular observational data to reinforce leak detection, repair programs and long-term methane management strategies.
Carbon Mapper will offer methane data derived from observations via Planet Labs’ Tanager-1 satellite over selected geographies, together with sector-specific emissions insights. OGCI will deploy its involvement framework, formerly used in its Satellite Monitoring Campaign, to work directly with local operators to invesstigate and deal with emissions.
Since 2021, OGCI’s Satellite Monitoring Campaign has given a operators in countries which include Iraq, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Egypt with satellite emissions data and technical support to enhance detection and mitigation capabilities.
OGCI said its 12 member organizations — such as Aramco, bp, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell — have reduced compile upstream operated methane emissions by 63% since 2017 and reduce routine flaring by 72% since 2018. The group goals to reach near-zero methane emissions from operated assets by 2030, aligned with the timeframe of the Paris Agreement.
The organizations stated the collaboration is supposed to illustrate how publicly reachable emissions data, integrated with structured operator engagement, can drive tangible methane reductions and assist more credible reporting across the sector.
