Chapter 1 - Methane Management Drivers and Policies

1.00 - Introduction (9 min.) Sample Lesson
1.01 - Part 1 Recap (17 min.) Quiz: 1.01 - Part 1 Recap
1.02 - Methane Regulations - Part 1 (9 min.)
1.02 - Methane Regulations - Part 2 (21 min.)
1.02 - Methane Regulations - Part 3 (15 min.) Quiz: 1.02 - Methane Regulations - Part 3
1.03 - Voluntary Initiatives & Gas Certification - Part 1 (13 min.)
1.03 - Voluntary Initiatives & Gas Certification - Part 2 (13 min.)
1.03 - Voluntary Initiatives & Gas Certification - Part 3 (15 min.) Quiz: 1.03 - Voluntary Initiatives & Gas Certification - Part 3

Chapter 2 - Mitigating Methane Emissions

2.01 - Capture, Destruction, Conservation and Repair (15 min.) Quiz: 2.01 - Capture, Destruction, Conservation and Repair
2.02 - Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs ) (21 min.) Quiz: 2.02 - Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs )
2.03 - Operational Best Practices (16 min.) Quiz: 2.03 - Operational Best Practices

Chapter 3 - Advancements & Trends

3.01 - Advancements In Methane Technology (23 min.) Quiz: 3.01 - Advancements In Methane Technology
3.02 - Future Trends (11 min.) Quiz: 3.02 - Future Trends
3.03 - Conclusions (5 min.) Quiz: 3.03 - Conclusions

Fundamentals of Methane Emissions Management Part 2 / Chapter 1 - Methane Management Drivers and Policies

Lesson 1.00 - Introduction

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01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction 02. Disclaimer 03. Fundamentals of Methane Emissions Management Part 2 04. Agenda 05. Housekeeping 06. Your Course Instructor 07. Who We Are 08. Participants Will Develop High-Level Understanding 09. Methane Management Drivers and Policies 10. Lesson 1.01 Part 1 Recap

01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction

Welcome to Fundamentals of Methane Emissions Management, Part 2. My name is Thomas Fox. I'll be your instructor today. Thank you for joining.

02. Disclaimer

Before we get into the meat and potatoes of today's course, just the usual disclaimer that information moves quickly in emissions management. We don't recommend that any of the content in this course be used exclusively to inform decision-making, as there may be mistakes or errors. We recommend consulting with an expert before making any decisions.

03. Fundamentals of Methane Emissions Management Part 2

So, this course is the much-anticipated sequel of Fundamentals of Methane Emissions Management, Part 1. It's designed for pretty much anyone within the energy industry, targeted at oil and gas professionals, sustainability professionals, operators, anyone seeking to understand a comprehensive overview of methane emissions data and emissions management strategies. We recommend taking Fundamentals of Methane Emissions Management Part 1, which is the prerequisite for this course. Participants may be beginners, may be experts in need of a refresher. And we really have designed it so that it's accessible but interesting to all.

04. Agenda

So, three items on the agenda today and three chapters. So, Chapter 1 is the drivers and policies that are leading oil and gas companies to decide to take methane seriously. Chapter 2 is about strategies for actually reducingmethane emissions. In the previous course, we talked about how to estimate them through detection or building bottom-up inventories. Now, we're gonna talk about how to actually reduce them once we know that they exist. And in Chapter 3, we're gonna be talking about the future. So, advancements in methane technology and the trends that we anticipate seeing as the industry evolves.

05. Housekeeping

A little bit of housekeeping before we get going. First thing is that we really love critical and constructive feedback on our courses. We always endeavor to improve our content, and to make it accurate, and relevant, and interesting, and valuable for the listeners and students. So, if you have any feedback at all, please, please contact us, and let us know so that we can improve our content. And if you actually really liked the course, we would love to hear that too. We are technology and vendor-agnostic. At Highwood Emissions Management, we acknowledge that there's no silver bullet, and we don't make endorsement. Throughout the course of the course, we will be talking about some specific examples of technologies. We aren't suggesting that these technologies are the best available or are even applicable or relevant for any particular use case. So, please keep that in mind. We have no financial ties with any of the vendors that we're talking about in this course. And we pride ourselves in offering impartial and independent advice. There may be some educated opinions within this course. The methane management landscape is evolving rapidly. There are a lot of unknowns. And as experts in emissions management, myself and others at Highwood may inject some of our perspectives or opinions around how methane works and how it should be mitigated. We do try to keep these opinions as educated as possible and informed with facts. The methane space changes daily. We've attempted to include information in here that will not become quickly outdated, and we commit to updating the course at a fairly regular interval in order to ensure that the content remains current, but that is not a guarantee. One example is that Canadian regulations are currently in draft format at the time of this recording. By next year, those regulations could be finalized. So, we will try to update the course. But because so much is changing in technology, in methane detection and quantification technologies, and software, and regulations, and standards, it's quite likely that elements of the course will become outdated. One additional thing is that you'll see throughout the course that there are quite extensive figure captions. We write really detailed figure captions, not so that you read them through the course, but so that you can pause when you engage with the slides and get much more valuable information as you are moving slowly through the course. We also use this information to train our methane expert, which is our AI-driven methane support engine.

06. Your Course Instructor

So, I'm your instructor today. My name is Thomas Fox. I'm president and chief innovation officer at a company called Highwood Emissions Management. My background is in methane detection and quantification technology evaluation. I lead research and development, the product team, and the software engineering team at Highwood Emissions Management. We are building novel software. We do a whole bunch of consulting. We work with the different initiatives for reducing methane emissions and understanding methane emissions. My background is that I have a PhD in methane detection and quantification technology; building open source software, which we'll talk a little bit about today; and working with industry regulators and innovators to find better ways to more cost-effectively reduce methane emissions. My master's was in satellite remote sensing and agricultural land-use change. And before we jump into the course, I just want to acknowledge the work of Dr. Chris Nixon (greenhouse gas scientist at Highwood Emissions Management) for his important contributions to the development of this course and many others at Highwood and beyond who helped to put this content together. In particular, we leverage a lot of figures and images of research and work that's done by other organizations. We provide citations for all of that. But I also just wanted to thank and acknowledge those contributors before jumping in.

07. Who We Are

One slide on Highwood Emissions Management. We are a Calgary-based consulting and software company focused on the oil and gas industry and focused almost exclusively on methane emissions, but more broadly on greenhouse gas emissions management. We were founded about 3.5 years ago, in 2020, and we are widely regarded as experts in voluntary emissions reduction initiatives, in methane technology selection and strategy, and in developing measurement-informed inventories. So, we have participated in a broad range of initiatives to really push the needle forward on how to understand and quantify methane emissions and how to help industry tackle this very complex challenge. So, we work quite a lot with industry, mostly in Canada, the United States, and Europe, with companies that are more proactive and kind of leading the charge on methane emissions management. But we also work with regulators. We've helped quite a bit to develop novel policy, both in Canada and in the United States. We work with standards associations. And we work quite a lot with technology vendors as well, providing them advisory services and consulting support in order to ensure that their technologies are leveraged appropriately and successful.

08. Participants Will Develop High-Level Understanding

In this course, participants will develop a high-level understanding of methane topics. And in particular, we are going to focus on the drivers of methane emissions management, regulations that exist and that are proposed, abatement strategies for reducing emissions, and also best practices for preventing emissions. We're gonna talk about recent advances in methane technology, in the data management systems, and in computer models simulation tools that exist for leveraging data to make better decisions. And we'll talk about our tea leaves reading—future trends, regulations, markets, innovation, and influential organizations. Everybody wants to know where this is going. And so, for dessert at the end of this course, we're going to offer you our perspectives on that.

09. Methane Management Drivers and Policies

Chapter 1: Methane Management Drivers and Policies. In this chapter, we have 3 lessons. First, we're gonna do a recap of Part 1 of the course just to get everyone in the mood. Feel free to skip this recap if you just took Part 1 of the course, because there will be some redundancy here, but we tried to distill it, so it will be slightly different information. Lesson 2 is all about methane regulations. And Lesson 3 is a voluntary initiatives and gas certification scheme. So, these are the kind of the 2 categories of drivers for methane emissions reductions.

10. Lesson 1.01 Part 1 Recap

Lesson 1.01 is a recap. So, the three segments are introducing methane, methane in oil and gas, and estimating methane emissions. We'll see you in the first segment on introducing methane.