LongPath Technologies is expanding its greenhouse gas emission monitoring technologies across state borders.
LongPath was last year’s recipient of the US Department of Energy (DOE) award totaling $5 million. With the funding, LongPath has been tracking methane emissions within the Permian Basin through their Basin Scale Continuous Abatement Network (Basin-SCAN) project.
“LongPath provides the industry gold standard of methane emissions monitoring, providing total site coverage, including flares, and reducing the time to find and fix leaks from months to real-time," LongPath Co-Founder and VP of Product and Markets Caroline Alden stated in a January press release. "We're the only peer-reviewed published continuous monitoring system, and the sustained long-term emissions reductions for our customers speak to that quality.”
Since receiving the DOE award in Feb. of 2021, the continuous methane monitoring technology used for the Basin-SCAN project is now in the process of expanding across state lines into TX and NM oil and gas fields. Technologies developed for Basin-SCAN include laser nodes that register the unique “fingerprints” of various gases including methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide, among others.
To date, approximately 180 sq. mi. within the Permian Basin are being tracked for methane levels at all hours of the day. This number is expected to grow, with LongPath working to cover 700 sq. mi. for monitoring. With the Basin-SCAN networks, the real-time monitoring of gas emissions will help reduce between 60-80% of emissions within covered areas.
“A number of oil and gas operators have embraced our cost-effective technology as key to meeting their ESG objectives, and the DOE has identified Basin-SCAN as a step-change advancement in the nation's emission reduction toolbox,” Alden said.
Founded at the University of Colorado in 2017 and based in Boulder, LongPath Technologies builds upon a decade of research and development to create new methods for tracking greenhouse gas emissions.
