GHGSat, a company providing global emissions monitoring services, announced a CAD $3.3M funding agreement from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to provide emissions measurements of oil and gas facilities in the Montney region of BC. The project’s primary objective is to demonstrate that a tiered monitoring system using GHGSat’s satellites and aircraft instruments can detect more leaks quicker and at a lower cost than the regulatory standard, based on optical gas imaging cameras.

The project, which has a total value of CAD $9.8M, will have field operations beginning in early 2020. Measurements will be conducted using GHGSat’s newest satellite platform, (GHGSat-C1, or “Iris”) in combination with an aircraft-mounted sensor that GHGSat has in development.

GHGSat understands the need for globally standardized technology to quantify GHG emissions from industrialized facilities. Their innovative satellites can reduce monitoring costs in the oil sands by over 50%. More frequent and accurate reporting better informs the industry on where and how to reduce GHG emissions. SDTC is proud to invest in GHGSat as it develops a solution to help reduce GHG emissions from industrialized sites.

—Zoe Kolbuc, Vice-President, Partnerships, Sustainable Development Technology Canada

GHGSat is the first and only private company to own and operate high-resolution satellites designed to measure greenhouse gas emissions from industrial facilities around the world.