BP Ventures has invested $5 million in Satelytics, a cloud-based geospatial analytics software company that uses advanced spectral imagery and machine learning to monitor environmental changes, including methane emissions.
BP Ventures has invested $5 million in Satelytics, a cloud-based geospatial analytics software company that uses advanced spectral imagery and machine learning to monitor environmental changes, including methane emissions.
Satelytics collects high resolution spectral imagery from the planet’s surface using satellites, drones, and aircraft. Its technology combines these images with proprietary algorithms to create unique electromagnetic signatures that can be used to detect environmental changes, including releases or leaks. Its software visualizes these data sets on interactive displays that give end-users a clear picture of operations, and alert them to facility risks, such as methane leaks.
BP’s $5 million investment will enable Satelytics to develop its technology further and scale its applications throughout the oil and gas sector. Use of the technology has the potential to be part of BP’s aim to install methane measurement at all major oil and gas processing sites by 2023, publish the data and then drive a 50% reduction in methane intensity of its operations.
Morag Watson, BP senior vice-president of digital science and engineering, said: ‘Satelytics is modernizing the energy sector by making data about physical assets more accessible and digestible, leading to better decision making.’
David Hayes, BP Ventures managing director for the Americas and chief operating officer, said: ‘Earlier this year we announced our ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero. As part of our ambition, one of our ten aims relates to methane measurement at all of our major oil and gas processing sites by 2023 and reducing methane intensity of our operations by 50%. Advanced technologies such as Satelytics, integrating multiple approaches to efficiently detect emissions, have the potential to be a valuable tool that can support this work.’
