Beyond Methane Monitoring: Transform Detection into Operational Excellence
Enhance Operations and Ensure Compliance
Sensible EDP™ offers a comprehensive, continuous methane monitoring solution for various industries such as oil and gas, waste management, landfill, agriculture, and more. The platform adapts to your organization’s current methane emission management capabilities while supporting your evolution toward more advanced monitoring strategies. Whether using traditional periodic measurements, evaluating enhanced monitoring technologies, or implementing continuous monitoring solutions, our platform seamlessly integrates and optimizes your methane management program.
Backed by Montrose Environmental Group’s air quality expertise, Sensible EDP™ provides real-time methane inventory management by incorporating data from all monitoring approaches including:
- OGI cameras
- Method 21 measures
- Satellites
- Flyovers
- Fixed Cameras
- Continuous Emission Sensor Networks
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Montrose’s methane solution delivers the quantification and reconciliation needed to meet detection, investigation, repair, and reporting requirements. It also helps organizations achieve ESG goals and reduce reputational and safety risks.
- Effortless integration of all monitoring technologies – from traditional OGI to continuous sensors
- Real-time analytics and notifications/alerts for rapid response to emissions events
- Regulatory-compliant documentation and automated reporting features
- Expert support for program enhancement and optimization evolution
Is Your Facility at Risk?
Environmental regulations are becoming increasingly restrictive, with required emission reductions becoming more stringent yearly. While this presents challenges, it also creates opportunities to adopt newer, more efficient monitoring technologies and processes. These technological advances help you meet current compliance requirements. They also position your organization ahead of future regulatory changes.
The Waste Emissions Charge (WEC) exemplifies this trend, with facilities emitting over 25,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent facing escalating charges from $900 per metric ton in 2024 to $1,500 by 2026. Organizations can significantly reduce operational costs and fugitive emissions by implementing continuous monitoring solutions, achieving better environmental outcomes while lowering compliance expenses. Sensible EDP’s approach leverages these technological advances to keep you ahead of regulatory changes and optimize operations. It also helps you maintain a competitive advantage in an increasingly carbon-conscious market.
Improve Accuracy with Continuous Monitoring
Better Accuracy
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- Continuous monitoring with real-time sensors, infrared cameras, and remote technologies (such as satellites, drones, and flyovers) delivers more precise emissions calculations.
- This approach captures actual, dynamic data instead of relying on generalized emission factors based on average conditions.
Verification
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- Continuous monitoring identifies specific emission sources and tracks fluctuations in emissions over time, providing accurate, site-specific data.
- For example, if an emission factor assumes a constant leak rate, continuous monitoring can confirm or disprove that assumption by showing whether actual emissions are lower or higher than expected.
Leak Detection & Maintenance
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- Continuous systems detect small leaks or changes in emission patterns that periodic measurements may overlook.
- This near-real-time detection allows for prompt corrections, preventing the overestimations often associated with periodic measurement alone.
The Hidden Cost of Default Emission Factors
Traditional periodic monitoring programs face a significant challenge: EPA regulations use conservative default emission factors based on equipment types to estimate facility emissions. These default factors often overestimate emissions by 30-50%, leading to inflated compliance costs and potentially unnecessary operational restrictions. Without continuous monitoring data to prove otherwise, facilities must accept these conservative estimates, impacting both their compliance obligations and operational costs.
Continuous Methane Monitoring: The Path to Accurate Emissions Quantification
Sensible EDP improves methane management by providing continuous emissions data, replacing periodic measurements used for estimating and reporting methane emissions.
Periodic measurements with emission factors can lead to overestimations of methane emissions, depending on the site conditions and the emission factors used.
Continuous methane monitoring systems significantly improve the accuracy of methane emissions estimates and reduce overestimations by providing real-time, site-specific data. This approach offers better leak detection, verification, and emissions reporting, crucial for regulatory compliance and meeting carbon reduction targets.
Sensible EDP — Your Partner for Methane Emission Monitoring
Choosing a partner for continuous methane monitoring is complex and demands a “Regulatory-Proofed” compliance strategy. This strategy must ensure efficient adherence to regulatory requirements while enabling quick, cost-effective adaptation to evolving environmental standards with minimal disruption to operations.
Effective methane emissions management requires real-time methane monitoring, rapid response, and comprehensive analysis. Sensible EDP™ integrates these capabilities, transforming how organizations detect, quantify, and manage emissions. With continuous monitoring, geospatial visualization, and automated compliance, it provides a single source of truth to meet regulatory goals efficiently and cost-effectively.
Sensible EDP™ provides 24/7 monitoring with instant alerts for rapid response to emissions events. With continuous monitoring and emissions quantification, our solution ensures accurate reporting. We use various technologies, such as point sensors, open-path technology, and continuous OGI cameras.
Sensible EDP enables customers to meet the Continuous Methane Monitoring Solutions specified in EPA Title 40 CFR Part 60 (also known as New Source Performance Standards, NSPS 0000b). This approach provides an alternative method for achieving emission reductions.
Monitor multiple methane data streams through a unified dashboard with automatic detection of threshold breaches. Correlated alerts provide early warnings, enabling operators to quickly drill down into the data and reduce response time to potential methane leaks.
Streamline regulatory compliance with automated report generation for EPA, state, and local methane emissions standards. Save time and ensure consistency through automated, detailed reporting processes.
Achieve precise methane leak geolocation through multiple data points while eliminating false positives through data cross-validation. Identify impact zones to launch targeted Leak Detection and Response (LDAR) with both location-based and equipment-based emissions views.
Leverage historical pattern recognition across multiple methane emission sources to gain comprehensive investigation context. Correlate equipment performance with environmental factors for a thorough understanding and improved resolution.
Utilize multi-source data for accurate methane emissions reconciliation and quantification. Generate detailed emissions intensity calculations and trend analysis to support your methane reduction goals.
Automate your methane measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) processes, including LDAR and OGI team coordination. Deploy customizable workflows for handling methane events, with features for equipment-specific emission attribution, event correlation, and work order creation.
Our mobile app provides access to field data collection. This includes OGI and LDAR-related data, videos, and GPS-tagged methane measurements.
Seamlessly integrate with critical systems, including SCADA for operational activities, geospatial data on emissions and equipment, and LDAR-related workflow updates. This integration also includes weather and wind data required for methane quantification.
Montrose has a deep understanding of the energy industry and a broad skill set, enabling integrated solutions for methane challenges in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
We take a comprehensive approach to methane emissions measurement, management, and reduction—from strategy and program development to boots-on-the-ground methane quantification.
Our interdisciplinary team’s knowledge and experience provide our clients with holistic, fit-for-purpose methane solutions.
Comprehensive Methane Monitoring Services
Support for OGMP and Other Sustainability Frameworks
We employ comprehensive sustainability frameworks, including Oil & Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0, MiQ, Equitable Origin, Trustwell, and Veritas. We develop detailed implementation plans and assist with setting goals and targets for methane intensity, carbon intensity, and Net Zero initiatives.
Our expertise includes methane intensity evaluation with peer benchmarking, emission reduction planning using marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs), stakeholder engagement, and internal education and policy development.
Why Wait? Get Started with Sensible EDP™
Join the growing list of organizations using Sensible EDP to meet methane monitoring challenges head-on. Protect your facility from regulatory risks, improve operational efficiency, and achieve your ESG and methane compliance goals.