Upcoming webinars: reducing flaring and improving carbon accounting

Call for speakers for the Autumn webinars on the theme of solving difficult energy industry problems through model sharing

Reducing gas flaring in oil production and monetising it instead - understanding what is possible - webinar next Friday - June 30th - 1pm UK time

We will review external data from the Wressle Oilfield, Lincolnshire (True Colour, Thermal and Short Wave IR satellite images), and hear from the operator, Edgon Resources, about how they plan to 'monetise' the gas. Also review why reducing flaring is harder than many people imagine

A better model for carbon emissions accounting - sharing data and insight between operators, suppliers, investors and regulators. Webinar on September 29

Including customers, waste operators, CCS facilities, CO2 removals, and regulators. With Elle Butterworth - Energy Policy Adviser, Energy Systems Catapult

Autumn Webinar Theme - Solving Difficult Energy Industry Problems Through Model Sharing

Call for speakers

The theme for our webinars for Summer and Autumn 2023 is solving difficult energy industry problems through model sharing.

We can see 'model sharing' as an evolution of the discussion on data sharing. As an industry we have been discussing data sharing for decades with limited success. Today, a lot of data is shared and a lot isn't. Some software systems integrate, but many don't.

Let's start in a different place. What we actually want to share is our understanding of where we are. This may or may not be 'data'. But it is almost certainly generated by a model. Can we achieve more by discussing model sharing instead?

By a 'model' we mean our template for how we do things. Just as you have a template for how you get to your place of work or make your dinner. The industry has multiple templates for how it does things, how it works with data, and how it does things which involve working with data.

If we can share models, and they are widely adopted by others, we can achieve something similar to a 'standard' but without the trouble of having a formal industry group meet to discuss and agree on it. Just like society adopts any other fashion or practise.

Digital technology build on standardised, easy to understand models will be much easier to integrate with other digital technology, without necessarily needing a data standard. So we may help solve one of the biggest and fastest growing problems of digital technology.

Our two webinars we are planning so far (see above) are on this theme, discussing a model for reducing gas flaring in oil production, and a model for how carbon emission accounting could be done, sharing emission data between different parties, including energy producers, supply chain participants, customers, waste operators, CCS facilities, CO2 removals, and regulators.

Some ideas for topics:

• Better ways to monitor CO2 storage integrity, at acceptable effectiveness and cost
• Better ways to combine hydrocarbon production, CO2 sequestration, perhaps also hydrogen production, geothermal and renewable electricity, in a commercially viable way, where a net zero pathway can be demonstrated.
• Doing the above in East Africa. 
• Improving the emission data gathered from industry suppliers (part of Scope 3).
• Demonstrating to investors and regulators that a facility or company is on a net zero pathway, providing them with a model they can dive into themselves.
• Getting useful insights from old subsurface data, perhaps using AI, which may assist with carbon capture projects.
• Improving cybersecurity management from oil and gas activities, where effort and controls match the risk.
• Cybersecurity management for the unknown-but-not-zero risk of malware on operations technology devices

If you have an idea for how a difficult industry problem could be solved involving model sharing you may be interested in presenting in one of our webinars please contact Karl jeffery on jeffery@d-e-j.com

KeyFacts Energy Industry Directory: Finding Petroleum