Adam Haberlach’s Post

As an industry, #oilandgascompanies have made tremendous progress at better understanding and minimizing methane emissions from natural gas pipelines in the last couple of years. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) recently proposed new rules aimed at driving further emission reductions, but their proposal comes up short in a few critical ways. My team at Kairos Aerospace has been working with a coalition of stakeholders who want to see effective (and cost-effective) pipeline rules. So what have we learned PHMSA needs to change? More flexibility and performance-based regulation will be key to lowering costs and improving safety and environmental benefits. My most recent blog post summarizes our recommendations to PHMSA: https://lnkd.in/g7iYPTWZ

Want to reduce methane leaks? Ignore frequency of leak surveys at your own risk. This was concluded by a recent, peer-reviewed study by ExxonMobil. An ExxonMobil scientist uses modeling to demonstrate how leak detection and repair strategies targeting rapid detection of large sources achieve high emission reductions. That’s because in the world of leak detection and repair, speed is your friend. Rapidly finding and fixing the largest emissions sources (those releasing methane at a rate of hundreds or thousands of kilograms every hour) shortens their emission duration, and greatly reduces the total amount of methane emitted. At Kairos, we hear about the impact of finding and fixing large emissions from our customers every day. And as study after study demonstrates the outsized role of methane super emitters on profitability and greenhouse gas impact, it’s clear that frequent deployments of scalable technologies are vital for significantly reducing methane emissions. Read more about these two recent studies on our most recent blog from Ryan Streams, our VP of Policy and External Affairs: https://lnkd.in/e__hXjTm #methaneemissions