Looking Ahead: How to Future-Proof Your Oil & Gas Operations with Emissions Monitoring
This webinar was originally held on February 26, 2025 and is now available for on demand viewing.
Duration: 1 hour
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Summary
This webinar will focus on what’s next for the oil and gas industry in 2025, offering expert insights into key trends, challenges, and opportunities. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the evolving regulatory landscape, including shifting policies and compliance requirements shaping the sector.
While there are changes ahead from a political and economic standpoint, a particular emphasis will be placed on the growing importance of monitoring and managing emissions during times of transition. The session will explore how proactive emissions monitoring through satellite and aircraft can help mitigate risks, optimize operational efficiency, and ensure regulatory compliance, making it a critical component of long-term business strategy.
Key takeaways include:
- Insights into the emerging trends and challenges shaping the oil and gas sector so far in 2025 and beyond.
- A clear understanding of the evolving regulatory landscape, as well as measurements and compliance requirements related to emissions.
- Strategies for incorporating proactive emissions monitoring using satellite and aircraft technologies to ensure long-term sustainability.
- Best practices for optimizing operational efficiency while mitigating environmental risks.
- Practical knowledge on how to align emissions management with broader business objectives to future-proof operations.
Speakers
Stanley Opara
Senior Technical and Policy Advisor
GHGSat
Stanley is a Senior Technical and Policy Advisor at GHGSat, a pioneer organization in methane and carbon di-oxide remote sensing with a constellation of 11 commercial satellites – the largest currently deployed by any greenhouse gas sensing organization globally. He operates at the intersection of technology and policy, ensuring that GHGSat contributes actively to the development of emissions reduction policies and regulations across Canada and the United States through engagement with regulators while also enabling internal understanding of regulatory impact on the industry to help inform strategic decision making.
Prior to joining GHGSat, Stanley was a senior advisor on carbon at Suncor Energy in Calgary, Alberta where he led initiatives on the carbon markets, equipping senior executives with insights needed to make medium to long term strategic decarbonization decisions. Stanley also worked as a management consultant at Deloitte Canada with a focus on operations transformation, cost optimization and benchmarking, where he led the development and implementation of various solutions for oil & gas and mining executives across Canada.
He started his career as an exploration geophysicist with Schlumberger (now SLB), applying remote sensing techniques to identify petroleum reserves, and led the commercialization of a seismic guided drilling technology across Europe and Africa. Stanley holds a bachelor's degree in Geophysics and an MBA from Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Dave Risk
Brian Mulroney Research Chair in Climate Science and Policy
St. Francis Xavier University
Dave Risk (PhD) is a Research Chair in Climate Science and Policy at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) in Nova Scotia, Canada. Risk’s ‘FluxLab’ team has been involved in ecological gas measurement projects from pole to pole, have visited over 15,000 onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities across North America to assess inventories, and have measured methane levels at Canadian landfills from coast to coast. Most recently they have been operating a large-scale dispersed source emissions simulation facility to help industry, regulators, and developers assess technologies for methane measurement.
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