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Oil & Gas Industry Excellence Award Winner - Chevron

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

America
Asia

Country

United States
Indonesia

Product

Chevron Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting System (CGERS)
Sphera Environmental Performance software

Tech Stack

XML generator tool

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Environmental Impact Reduction
Cost Savings
Brand Awareness

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Energy Management System
Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Services

Data Science Services
System Integration

About The Customer

Chevron is one of the world’s leading energy companies, admired globally for its people, partnership, and performance. The company has a strong commitment to safety and environmental stewardship, known as Operational Excellence (OE). One of Chevron’s OE priorities is the management of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The company acknowledges the public and government concern about climate change and continues to address GHGs in its operations. Chevron also explores innovative, low-carbon energy technologies to manage its carbon emissions. The company operates in multiple locations worldwide, with 55 business units and 10,000 sites.

The Challenge

Chevron, a global energy company, has been committed to managing greenhouse gases (GHGs) in its operations. With the proliferation of GHG regulations worldwide, timely and accurate emissions reporting has become essential for the company. Many new GHG protocols include cap-and-trade or carbon pricing requirements, making GHG emissions data financially significant and subject to stringent standards associated with accounting and third-party auditing. Chevron, with its 55 business units and 10,000 sites worldwide, required a standardized system for tracking and reporting GHG emissions data.

The Solution

In 2008, Chevron launched the Chevron Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting System (CGERS), built on the Sphera Environmental Performance software. This system established Chevron as an industry leader in GHG information management. The Sphera solutions allowed Chevron to set up consistent GHG calculation methods that are fully transparent to a third-party verifier. The verifiable data from CGERS played a crucial part in helping Chevron earn a position on the respected Carbon Disclosure Project’s S&P 500 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for five years. Chevron is now migrating to an expanded suite of integrated environmental performance tools leveraging Sphera solutions to manage air emissions, water usage/discharge, and hazardous waste data as well as GHG emissions information within a single platform.

Operational Impact

Chevron has eliminated past reliance on spreadsheets, which often created record management issues.
The company has streamlined the process of submitting GHG data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by using a new XML generator tool from Sphera that works with CGERS to support automated reporting.
Chevron is playing a leadership role on the Sphera Customer Advisory Board (CAB) that is supporting Sphera development of ground-breaking system capabilities for records management.

Quantitative Benefit

Chevron set a new benchmark by achieving a score of 97 points – near the top of the Carbon Disclosure Project’s S&P 500 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index and nine points above the prior year.
In Sumatra, where Chevron has 94 oil fields, GHG emissions have been reduced by 75 percent.
One Chevron business unit reported that the new XML process took only a day for data entry, compared with the past manual data entry process which took up to two weeks.