Oil & Gas Industry Excellence Award Winner Spectra Energy
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- EPASS
- Sphera Essential Suite
Tech Stack
- EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT)
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Environmental Impact Reduction
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries
- Oil & Gas
Applicable Functions
- Maintenance
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
Services
- System Integration
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Spectra Energy is a FORTUNE 500 company and one of North America's premier pipeline and midstream companies. Based in Houston, Texas, the company’s operations include more than 22,000 miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids, and crude oil pipelines, approximately 305 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage, as well as natural gas gathering and processing, and local distribution operations with more than 1.4 million customers. Spectra Energy has served North American communities for more than a century. Its long-standing commitment to sustainable operations has been recognized by a host of independent organizations. Spectra Energy has been listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index (five consecutive years), the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (three years), the Carbon Disclosure Project 2012 CDP Global 500, and has been listed on the S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership indexes for five consecutive years. In addition Spectra Energy has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s World’s Most Ethical Companies list in 2012 and 2013.
The Challenge
Spectra Energy, a FORTUNE 500 company, is one of North America's premier pipeline and midstream companies. It has a commitment to sustainable operations and has been recognized by a host of independent organizations for its efforts. To deliver on these commitments, the company relies on its Environmental Performance and Safety System (EPASS). It standardizes processes for collecting and managing an array of environmental, health and safety (EHS) data, and then shares key aspects of that information both inside and outside of the company. EPASS also supports methodologies for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are consistent with accepted industry guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative and World Resources Institute. The company faced a challenge when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented its landmark Mandatory Reporting Rule, which applies to companies emitting 25,000 metric tons or greater of greenhouse gas emissions. Under current MRR’s Subpart C and Subpart W requirements, Spectra Energy initially was required to report combustion emissions data at 25 U.S. facilities.
The Solution
Spectra Energy has been using EPASS to manage air emissions – including GHG – since 2008. The EHS team uses Essential Suite to track GHG emissions by source type such as reciprocating engines or centrifical compressors and for specific pollutants such as carbon dioxide or methane. The system calculates GHG emissions for the individual sources that are utilized for MRR reporting as well as other corporate level internal and external reporting. For many of these sources, information is collected on a monthly basis, but EPASS can be configured to easily allow weekly or even daily calculations if the need arises. As a result, Spectra Energy had a head start in compiling GHG data for MRR reporting. Most of the data needed was already captured and accessible in EPASS, so the team was able to focus on collecting any additional data and building the bridge between the Sphera Essential Suite database and EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT) platform.
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