Chapter 1 - Introduction to Methane Inventories

01-00 - Introduction (6 min.) Sample Lesson
01-01 - Background (8 min.) Quiz: 01-01 - Background
01-02 - The Changing Landscape of GHG Inventories (14 min.) Quiz: 01-02 - The Changing Landscape of GHG Inventories

Chapter 2 - Connecting Methane Quantification and Inventories

02-01 - Building Methane Inventories (16 min.) Quiz: 02-01 - Building Methane Inventories
02-02a - Methane Measurement Data - Part 1 (15 min.)
02-02b - Methane Measurement Data - Part 2 (7 min.) Quiz: 02-02b - Methane Measurement Data - Part 2
02-03 - Moving Between Scales (11 min.) Quiz: 02-03 - Moving Between Scales
02-04 - Introduction To Uncertainty (30 min.) Quiz: 02-04 - Introduction To Uncertainty

Chapter 3 - MII and Reconciliation Initiatives

03-01a - Key initiatives, Commitments, and Protocols (16 min.)
03-01b - Key Challenges & Solutions (15 min.) Quiz: 03-01b - Key Challenges & Solutions
03-02 - Conclusions (15 min.) Quiz: 03-02 - Conclusions

Methane Reconciliation and Measurement-Informed Inventories Part 1 / Chapter 1 - Introduction to Methane Inventories

Lesson 01-00 - Introduction

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01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction 02. Disclaimer 03. Part 1: Introduction 04. Agenda 05. Housekeeping 06. Course Instructor Background 07. Highwood Emissions Management - Who We Are 08. Key Learning Objectives

01. Lesson 1.00: Introduction

Welcome to Reconciliation and Measurement Informed Inventories, part 1, a Highwood course. Today we're going to be covering the basics of reconciliation and measurement informed inventories (as they're called) in methane emissions for the oil and gas sector.

02. Disclaimer

Before we get into it, just a quick disclaimer to say that while we do our very best to provide you with the most up-to-date high quality information, we can't take any responsibility for decisions that are made from the material in this course.

03. Part 1: Introduction

Methane is becoming a very important topic in the energy industry today. You might be hearing about measurement informed inventories more in your day to day, whether it has to do with regulations or new initiatives in your company. And maybe you're getting a little bit confused. This course is designed for you. We can't cover everything in this course, so we do assume a basic level of familiarity in methane measurement. And for that, we have methane fundamentals courses that have already been recorded and are available on the SAGA Wisdom platform. In addition, many of the topics that we cover in this course briefly are covered in much greater detail in other Highwood courses. For example, our introduction to methane technologies, our course on the oil and gas methane partnership. In addition, this course is a prerequisite for Reconciliation and Measurement Informed Inventories Part 2, which is going to be recorded soon.

04. Agenda

Now, we have 3 chapters that we'll be covering in this course. Chapter 1: Introduction to Methane Inventories. Chapter 2: Connecting Methane Quantification and Inventories. And Chapter 3: Measurement Informed Inventories and Reconciliation Initiatives.

05. Housekeeping

First some housekeeping before we get into the course material. We often say that there's no silver bullet. I try to emphasize this routinely throughout the course. There's alot of different technologies in the methane space right now. Many solutions will apply in different situations but not others. Highwood has no financial ties to any vendors or any technology companies that we talk about in this course. There are no real or implied endorsements. However, just a disclaimer that some educated opinions may slip in. Some information that you'll hear is my own interpretation of what's going on.
Now we love constructive feedback and we're always looking to improve our content. So please feel free to shoot us a note if you have any questions or comments about any of the material that's covered in this course.

06. Course Instructor Background

A little bit about myself. I'm Jeff Rutherford. I'm the director of research and development at Highwood Emissions Management. I spend alot of time collaborating with my colleagues at Highwood in the technology team, developing novel software tools for building measurement informed inventories. I also do alot of work with Highwood's consultants, assisting operators with their measurement informed inventory obligations and initiatives. My main responsibility is serving as the bridge with the academic community, ensuring that our tools and consulting services remain on the cutting edge. I did my PhD in Dr. Adam Brandt's Environmental Assessment and Optimization Research group at Stanford University. My dissertation was on the development of a bottom-up simulator for greenhouse gas inventories and lifecycle assessment. A main focus of this work was on incorporating better methane data. And then near the end, I co-led a controlled release experiment for airplane and satellite-based methane quantification technologies. Finally, a huge shout out to Dr. Chris Nixon of Highwood, who helped me develop and implement this course. And also thanks to everyone else at Highwood who contributed to this course material.

07. Highwood Emissions Management - Who We Are

Highwood Emission Management is a consulting and software emissions management firm based out of Calgary, Alberta. We're specifically focused on the oil and gas industry and greenhouse gas emissions management. We have deep oil and gas expertise and we pride ourselves in providing independent and agnostic advice. We're trusted internationally. We partner with both oil and gas companies, regulators who are developing policy, industry associations and many other groups. The emissions management field is an exciting space right now, and at Highwood we've got an excellent team and we're working with many different stakeholders to develop the standards and strategies needed to cost-effectively reduce emissions.

08. Key Learning Objectives

So what are we going to be learning in the course today? Key learning objectives include answering the following questions.
In Chapter 1, we'll be learning about what inventories are and what are the pros and cons with how we're building inventories right now. Further, what specifically has motivated the shift from the way that we have been building methane inventories now and in the past to these new approaches of constructing measurement informed inventories.
In Chapter 2, we'll be learning how methane inventories are structured and how the methane measurement data is incorporated. Here we'll be learning about emissions factors, activity factors, how you collect measurement data, and how you describe the uncertainty associated with the measurement data as well as when it's incorporated through various techniques into the measurement informed inventory.
In Chapter 3, we'll be learning about the different regulatory and voluntary approaches to generating measurement informed inventories. Different systems and standards are being developed by national and international groups around reconciliation and measurement informed inventory development.
That concludes our introductory material. Next, we'll be moving on to Chapter 1.