Methane: where it was proven in the field

Methane detection disagrees by design. SensorUp reconciles satellite, continuous, OGI, and SCADA signals into one number that holds up under Subpart W audit.

A camera-equipped drone in flight at dusk, silhouetted against the sky — aerial remote sensing of a facility for methane emissions.

The problem

Your detection layers disagree, and they are supposed to

A satellite pass, a fence-line monitor, a quarterly OGI survey, and a SCADA historian measure different slices of the same site on different time bases. The disagreement is physics, not vendor failure. What turns it into a liability is what happens next.

Four right answers about four different things. None of them, alone, is the number you submit.

[ 01 ] Alert fatigue

Every source ships its own portal, so the field chases duplicates

Five vendors, five alert streams, none aware of the others.

Five vendors means five alert streams, each unaware of the others, so the same event arrives three times under three names and a crew rolls on each. The real super-emitter waits in the queue behind the duplicates.

[ 02 ] Spreadsheet reconciliation

The official number is built by hand, and its provenance dies in the export

Reconciliation happens in a spreadsheet nobody else can audit.

Reconciliation happens in a spreadsheet: CSV exports, manual joins, one analyst's judgment in formulas nobody else can audit. When the regulator asks where a value came from, the answer is a recollection, not a record.

[ 03 ] No owner

The confirmed leak lands, and nobody owns it

A real finding becomes an email, then a row, owned by no one.

Even once the real super-emitter is separated from the noise, the finding becomes an email and the email becomes a spreadsheet row, and ownership never lands on anyone. Weeks later, no one can show who was assigned, when they acted, or against which detection.

We consume the detection stack you already bought

[ 01 ] Detection layers

Every detection layer lands in one model, tied to the asset it implicates

Satellite, continuous, and OGI stop living in separate portals.

Satellite (GHGSat, MethaneSAT), continuous monitors (Project Canary, Qube, LongPath), and OGI cameras ingest as observations tied to the equipment under them. A pass arrives as a candidate event on your asset hierarchy, not a PDF in an inbox, and survey- and sensor-based detection stop living in separate systems.

consume: GHGSat, MethaneSAT, Canary, Qube, OGI
[ 02 ] SCADA context

Operational state arrives with the detection, not after it

Pressure, flow, and valve state sit beside every detection.

The Warehouse reads your SCADA historians (PI, CygNet) over OPC-UA and Modbus, so pressure, flow, and valve state sit beside every detection, separating a leak from a scheduled vent before a truck rolls. Ingress is pull-shaped, so nothing new lands on the OT segment.

consume: PI, CygNet ← OPC-UA / Modbus
[ 03 ] Frameworks

The methane frameworks live in the Library

OGMP 2.0, Super Emitter Response, and the factors behind them are Library content.

The methodologies your reconciled number answers to, OGMP 2.0 at L4/L5, the Super Emitter Response Program, and the emission factors behind them, are Reference Library content: versioned, inspectable, and applied the same way every cycle.

frameworks: OGMP 2.0, Super Emitter Response ← Library

Disagreeing signals become one defensible number that carries its custody

[ 01 ] Catch

One event, assembled from every layer that saw it

A scheduled vent is classified as a vent before anyone drives.

Autopilot correlates a satellite alert with the continuous-monitor reading and the SCADA anomaly underneath it, under supervision, and cross-references operational state, so a scheduled vent is classified as a vent before anyone drives anywhere.

[ 02 ] Prioritize

One number your engineers defend and your auditors accept

Calculations derive from observations in the open, ranked against the plan.

Calculations derive from observations in the open, not a spreadsheet's hidden formulas, reconciling bottom-up inventory against top-down measurement to an OGMP 2.0 L4/L5 number. Every derived value keeps its lineage to the readings beneath it.

[ 03 ] Resolve

An outcome you can defend, custody from instrument to submitted value

A confirmed event becomes owned work, closed and recorded with lineage an auditor accepts.

A confirmed event resolves to a named owner: the repair order, the follow-up survey, the closure. Every change is recorded, and Ledgers keeps custody from sensor calibration to submitted value. When the auditor asks where a number came from, the answer is a record: instrument, timestamp, transformation, approver.

Methane is composed from the same blocks, per deployment

Methane is not a separate product. It is composed in Studio from the same blocks every solution uses, run by Autopilot on the Warehouse beneath it, assembled for your stack per deployment. The same pattern runs the LDAR program and every solution in the catalog, and the reconciled number reports out through OGMP 2.0.

[ 01 ] Studio COMPOSE
  • Events
  • Work
  • Calculations
  • Compliance
  • Scenarios
  • Metrics
  • Reports
[ 02 ] Autopilot AUTOMATE
  • Agents
  • Cora
  • Solution Builder
  • Workflows
[ 03 ] Warehouse FOUNDATION
  • Assets
  • Integrations
  • Datasets
  • Relationships
  • Reference Library
  • Ledgers
  • Approvals
Methane draws Events, Calculations, and Metrics from Studio, the correlation Agents from Autopilot, and Integrations, Datasets, Relationships, the Reference Library, and Ledgers from the Warehouse. The same blocks compose every solution.

Watch one super-emitter go from four alerts to one owned repair

A satellite plume, a continuous-monitor spike, and a SCADA anomaly arrive as one correlated event, reconcile to a submittable number, and resolve to a named owner with custody intact.

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$schedule --with engineer --bring your-detection-stack

Talk to an engineer

Bring your detection vendor list and your last reconciliation spreadsheet. We'll walk consume, correlate, and custody against your actual stack, and tell you where the layers will disagree first.

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