Schlumberger launches new business dedicated to reducing flaring and methane emissions

Schlumberger announced the launch of Schlumberger End-to-end Emissions Solutions (SEES) to help operators identify, quantify, report, and eliminate emissions as they work toward their decarbonisation objectives

Methane and flare emissions currently account for more than 60 percent of direct (Scope 1 and 2) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the industry.

Schlumberger Chief Technology Officer Demos Pafitis commented: “We have created SEES specifically to help our customers deal with one of the most pressing issues of climate change: the urgent need to cut methane emissions. Due to its potency as a GHG and its major share of the industry’s overall operational emissions, tackling methane emissions will make a significant impact.”

In a press statement, Schlumberger said that SEES delivers a holistic approach to enable operators to develop a successful methane emissions elimination strategy from the outset.

"The approach builds on three pillars—plan, measure, and act—that are all underpinned by the industry’s first methane emissions digital platform, accessible in the DELFI cognitive E&P environment, to provide a comprehensive and differentiated path for operators to achieve their decarbonisation objectives:

1. Plan: Schlumberger screens a wide array of measurement and abatement solutions to identify the most cost-effective technology mix for any operator’s specific assets.
2. Measure: Schlumberger uniquely provides operators access to the full range of curated, best-in-class third party and in-house solutions, after rigorous evaluation of 97 methane measurement technologies.
3. Act: Though other service providers can inform an operator where emissions are occurring, Schlumberger—through its end-to-end offering—first finds the emissions and then takes remedial action to eliminate them.

Kahina Abdeli-Galinier, Schlumberger emissions business director, commented: “The urgency of methane and flare challenges means emission detection, measurement, reporting and abatement approaches need to mature rapidly. To benefit the industry, SEES aspires to become the trusted partner for operators looking to reduce their emissions footprint quickly, credibly, and in the right way. To benefit the planet, our objective is to work with our customers to eliminate 1 percent of all anthropogenic GHG emissions by 2030.”