Insights from Bridger Photonics: A Personal Message from our CEO
Bridger Photonics, Inc.
Gas Mapping LiDAR efficiently detects, locates, & quantifies methane, providing actionable data for emissions reduction.
July 2024
Welcome to our inaugural newsletter! We’ve had a bunch of interest from our clients, and from the broader emissions reduction community, in a “Bridger Photonics Newsletter.” So here we go!? We hope to use this newsletter as a chance to highlight and reflect on what we consider some of the most “newsworthy” things that happened in our company and in the broader emissions reduction world in the previous quarter. I’m thrilled to personally kick things off with a few updates from Q2 of 2024:
Regulations: The EPA finalized their “Subpart W” rulemaking in Q2, which set up the framework for operators to measure their emissions. Subpart W was the second of three pieces of the EPA’s recent methane regulatory rulemaking. We fought hard for key changes to the proposed rule and were rewarded with some big wins for the industry and for the environment in the finalized version of Subpart W. See our key takeaways later in this letter.
We are hosting a webinar on super-emitters coming on August 8th – sign up for Super Emitter Mitigation: A Rational Approach through this link.
Emissions Reduction Success: In Q2 we finalized proof that our clients are succeeding in reducing their methane emissions. We’ll be coming out with more on this in Q3 and Q4, but here’s a teaser:
Our work with you all is paying off big time, and we have the detection sensitivity, quantification accuracy, and inventory measurements with validated repeatability to prove it for you! I can’t tell you how fulfilling and motivating this is for our entire crew… thank you! Check out this talk by our CTO, Mike Thorpe walking through some of our results.
Export Success: First, we won the “Exporter-of-the-Year” award for our beloved state of Montana! But wait… there’s more export news! In Q2, we launched initiatives to expand operations to both Australia and South America! We’re excited to continue our growth and expansion serving operators across the globe. ?
Thanks for following along. You can expect a newsletter from us each quarter to provide important updates. If you have something you’d like us to cover, give us a shout! I want to close by extending my heartfelt appreciation to our clients and partners for their commitment to emissions reduction. History is watching and together, we are winning! ?
— Pete Roos, CEO
What's on Deck
Emissions Innovators
"Working to make leaks rare by land and air."
- Paul Espenan, Senior Vice President of EHS&R at Diversified Energy Company
Diversified Energy is a leading US energy company that began its work with Bridger Photonics in 2021. We’ve been working together to perform multi-year scans of Diversified's gathering and transmission assets in the Appalachian region. Diversified has truly raised the standard: in 2023, the company reached its 2030 methane intensity reduction target!
Congratulations to Diversified on their incredible progress!?
Read more about the progress in Diversified Energy’s 2023 Sustainability Report, and watch this short video to learn how they use aerial LiDAR.??
Emissions Oddities
In the early months of 2024, our data wizards detected a persistent emission across multiple scans for a large midstream operator.
After a gripping ground investigation by the operator, it was revealed to be a very unexpected culprit—a rogue stop sign whose post had breached a natural gas line. “Stopping” leaks now has a whole new meaning!??
Have a story to share? Submit your oddities to be featured! ?? Submit Your Oddities to [email protected].
News Across North America?
Over the course of a single week in May, the US EPA’s Subpart W Final Rule was released and OOOOb regulations took effect. Combined with the future Waste Emissions Charge, these new US regulations mean big changes for operators in the production sector. ?
Main takeaways from the OOOOb Final Rule that took effect on May 7, 2024 include: ?
Main takeaways from the Subpart W Final Rule that was published on May 6, 2024 include:?
Learn more about U.S. EPA OOOOb and OOOOc methane regulations and how Bridger Photonics can help.
What's New
Don't miss our next webinar, "Super Emitters: A Rational Approach," where we'll discuss effective strategies for identifying and managing super emitters to optimize methane mitigation. Join us on August 8 at 10am MT/12pm ET. ?? Register here.
Bridger’s Director of Policy and External Affairs, Asa Carré-Burritt, sat down with Energy Transition Solutions podcast. They discussed the industry’s focus on emission reduction, how methane detection works, and more. ?? Listen Now
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ADAS Sensing Systems Technical Expert
7 个月That’s amazing that your clients are reducing the emissions so much!