Shell Energy, ExxonMobil and Chevron are among those partnering with the Rocky Mountain Institute
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CARLSBAD, N.M. — Leading oil companies in the Permian Basin are working with a Colorado-based nonprofit environmental organization to better track emissions from the industry as it tries to curb pollution. Shell Energy, ExxonMobil and Chevron are among those partnering with the Rocky Mountain Institute. They’ll be using a digital platform that will offer emissions data from satellites, aircraft and monitoring stations as well as industry reports. The system — known as Climate Action Engine — is intended to help companies meet benchmarks for greenhouse gas emissions and invest more in targeted efforts to curb the effects of climate change, the Carlsbad Current-Argus reported. “By bringing data, intelligence and people together onto one, single platform, (Rocky Mountain Institute) is enabling climate solutions for the oil and gas industry that work for the benefit of the climate, companies, countries and people,” said Taku Ide, who leads the institute’s efforts to reduce methane emissions. Daniel Droog, vice president of energy transition at Chevron, said the company already has cut methane emissions by 85% in its onshore U.S. operations using data-driven initiatives over the last several years. He said the new system could help further that effort by using real-time information as operations continue. Shell Vice President of U.S. Shales Frits Klap said the company was able to reduce flaring in the Permian by about 80% since 2017, crediting the reduction to new technologies such as the Climate Action Engine. “Combining data and (artificial intelligence) on a single platform is an innovation that could enhance our methane emissions management and supports Shell’s ambition to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner,” Klap said. Related Articles
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Colorado-based Climate Action Engine to help with tracking oil and gas emissions

Rocky Mountain Institute Launches Platform To Measure And Visualize Global Emissions
The Climate Action Engine (CAE) will help oil and gas companies reduce greenhouse gas emissions by providing data to inform decision-making and evaluate whether climate actions are having an impact. Author:
Sep 17, 2020 12:01 AM EDT
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), in partnership with Spherical|Analytics (S|A), today released the Climate Action Engine (CAE), a new data and analytics platform that will produce accurate, timely and actionable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data to inform planning and action related to reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the Texas Permian Basin. The CAE is uniquely positioned to respond to the oil and gas industry's need to make methane emissions-reduction actionable. As measured by carbon dioxide equivalency, over half of global energy-related emissions come from the production, transportation and use of oil and gas products. As a result, reducing methane emissions is increasingly important to all actors and investors in the oil and gas value chain. By connecting industry, finance, and other stakeholders with high-quality data, the CAE will help them understand how to meet emissions reduction targets collaboratively and will help move capital to support climate mitigation. "By bringing data, intelligence and people together onto a single platform, RMI is enabling climate solutions for the oil and gas industry that work for the benefit of the climate, companies, countries, and people," said Taku Ide, principal at Rocky Mountain Institute. "RMI's deployment of our enterprise data fabric platform, Immutably™, brings the power of machine learning for the generation of asset grade data and AI-enablement for asset grade analytics to provide critical insights into climate intelligence," said Dan Harple, founder and CEO of Spherical|Analytics, a Context Labs company. Operators including Shell, Origin Energy, Exxon, and Chevron will provide valuable feedback to shape the CAE's outputs and use cases to help identify opportunities to reduce methane emissions under operational control in Texas. "Combining data and AI on a single platform is an innovation that could enhance our methane emissions management and supports Shell's ambition to become a net zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner," said Frits Klap, Shell VP Shales US. "We look forward to the potential additional benefits from participating in this CAE pilot." Over time, the CAE will be expanded to cover all GHG emissions across critical sectors. Media Inquiries please contact: Alexandra Chin - Media Relations Associate | achin@rmi.org
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Rocky Mountain Institute Launches Platform To Measure And Visualize Global Emissions

New platform launched to measure and visualise global emissions
The Climate Action Engine will help oil and gas companies reduce emissions by providing data to inform decision-making and evaluate whether climate actions are having an impact
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A new data and analytics platform to help measure and visualise global greenhouse gas emissions has been launched. Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has partnered with Spherical | Analytics (S|A) to release the Climate Action Engine (CAE), which will help oil and gas companies reduce emissions by providing data to inform decision-making and evaluate whether climate actions are having an impact. It will also inform planning and action related to reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry in the Texas Permian Basin. More than half of global energy-related emissions come from the production, transportation and use of oil and gas products and therefore, reducing methane emissions is increasingly important in the value chain. By connecting industry, finance and other stakeholders with data, the CAE will help them understand how to meet emissions reduction targets collaboratively and move capital to support climate mitigation. Taku Ide, Principal at Rocky Mountain Institute said: “By bringing data, intelligence and people together onto a single platform, RMI is enabling climate solutions for the oil and gas industry that work for the benefit of the climate, companies, countries and people.”
Operators including Exxon, Chevron , Origin Energy and Shell will provide feedback to shape CAE’s outputs and use cases to help identify opportunities to reduce methane emissions under operational control in Texas. Frits Klap, Shell VP Shales US added: “Combining data and AI on a single platform is an innovation that could enhance our methane emissions management and supports Shell’s ambition to become a net zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner. “We look forward to the potential additional benefits from participating in this CAE pilot.”
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New platform launched to measure and visualise global emissions

BOULDER -- Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), in partnership with Spherical|Analytics (S|A), today released the Climate Action Engine (CAE), a new data and analytics platform that will produce accurate, timely and actionable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data to inform planning and action related to reducing methane emissions from the oil-and-gas industry in the Texas Permian Basin. RMI said the CAE is uniquely positioned to respond to the oil and gas industry's need to make methane emissions-reduction actionable. As measured by carbon dioxide equivalency, over half of global energy-related emissions come from the production, transportation and use of oil and gas products. As a result, reducing methane emissions is increasingly important to all actors and investors in the oil and gas value chain. By connecting industry, finance, and other stakeholders with high-quality data, the CAE will help them understand how to meet emissions reduction targets collaboratively and will help move capital to support climate mitigation. "By bringing data, intelligence and people together onto a single platform, RMI is enabling climate solutions for the oil-and-gas industry that work for the benefit of the climate, companies, countries, and people," said Taku Ide, principal at Rocky Mountain Institute. "RMI's deployment of our enterprise data fabric platform, Immutably, brings the power of machine learning for the generation of asset grade data and AI-enablement for asset grade analytics to provide critical insights into climate intelligence," said Dan Harple, founder and CEO of Spherical|Analytics, a Context Labs company. Operators including Shell, Origin Energy, Exxon, and Chevron will provide valuable feedback to shape the CAE's outputs and use cases to help identify opportunities to reduce methane emissions under operational control in Texas, RMI said. "Combining data and AI on a single platform is an innovation that could enhance our methane emissions management and supports Shell's ambition to become a net zero emissions energy business by 2050 or sooner," said Frits Klap, Shell VP Shales US. “We look forward to the potential additional benefits from participating in this CAE pilot." Over time, RMI said the CAE will be expanded to cover all GHG emissions across critical sectors.

Rocky Mountain Institute launches platform to measure and visualize global emissions

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“There are approximately 75,000 deals out there EVERY DAY! By creating your own anonymous and private profile in a fun, easy way, we pre-search and filter the best possible offers for you — the right stuff in the right place at the right time… and at the right price — without you telling us who you are or anything about yourself! It’s like having your very own personal shopper.”
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