How to prevent methane from “escaping”? New Emission Monitoring Solution

Honeywell recently launched a portfolio of solutions for emissions control and reduction designed to help customers achieve carbon neutrality goals across a wide range of industry sectors. The solutions portfolio will initially focus on helping upstream, midstream and downstream customers in the oil and gas industry monitor and reduce fugitive emissions of methane and other hazardous gases. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, with a greenhouse effect approximately 25 times greater than that of carbon dioxide*.

*Source: U.S. National Environmental Protection Agency

Emission Control and Reduction Solutions

Honeywell combines its portfolio of stationary, portable and personal protection gas detection solutions with its Gas Cloud Imaging System to provide customers with technology for the early detection of fugitive emissions of methane, as well as other hazardous gases, including pinpointing the location of leaks and associated data analysis and trending. With this data, users can identify and act quickly to address risks such as leaks, thereby significantly reducing production losses and meeting regulatory requirements.

The solution combines wireless gas detection technology with an enterprise-class data management solution that works in tandem with existing leak detection and remediation test methods to improve reporting accuracy and enable users to identify production losses faster, resulting in increased productivity.

This emissions control and reduction solution further extends Honeywell's range of proven technologies that are helping our customers achieve their sustainability goals. With Honeywell's depth and breadth of product lines in gas detection, we are bringing our customers a global, proactive approach to emissions reduction like never before.

--Ujjwal Kumar, President, Honeywell Process Controls

Ujjwal Kumar

New Commitments to Sustainability

Honeywell recently announced a series of new commitments that build on the sustainability commitments made last year to achieve carbon neutrality for all business operations and facilities by 2035. The new commitments, which include working with the Science-Based Carbon Targets Initiative (SBTi) to develop science-based reduction targets that include other indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the value chain - known as Scope 3 emissions - represent a continuation of a multi-year sustainability effort. Since 2004. Honeywell has reduced the GHG emissions intensity of its business operations and facilities by more than 90 percent, in addition to supporting the overall goals of the Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Honeywell's methane detection solution is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2022.