April 23, 2025 — The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), together with Ipieca, IOGP and the Energy Institute have updated its recommended practices guide to help oil and gas operators select and deploy methane detection and quantification technologies.
Updates to the guide, that was first published in 2023, include advances in methane detection technologies and relevant data sheets and decision trees which operators would use to deploy these technologies.
This includes six new technologies and updates to 14 others.
OGCI’s core strategic ambition is to work proactively with and encourage the entire oil and gas industry to aim for net zero methane emissions by 2030.
Eliminating methane emissions from the upstream oil and gas industry represents one of the best short-term opportunities for contributing to climate change mitigation and advancing the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The guide provides oil and gas operators with a framework and guidelines to help select and deploy methane emissions detection that is tailored to their sites and objectives. It is accompanied by an online technology filtering tool, detailed technology data sheets covering 56 technologies and decision trees to support deployment.
The guide was commissioned by the organizations and supported by Carbon Limits and expert input from external technology providers. The organizations are continuing to work together and will further update the guide as needed.
About OGCI
· The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative is a CEO-led initiative comprised of 12 of the world’s leading oil and gas companies, producing around 30% of global oil and gas on an operated basis.
· OGCI aims to lead the oil and gas industry’s response to climate change and accelerate action towards a net zero emissions future consistent with the timeframe of the Paris Agreement.
· Since 2017, OGCI’s member companies have collectively reduced upstream operated methane emissions and routine flaring by more than 50%, invested nearly $100 billion in low-carbon technologies and shared best practices across the industry and other sectors to accelerate emissions reductions.
· In 2023, OGCI played a pivotal role in establishing the Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC), which was launched at COP28 in Dubai. OGDC is a coalition of 55 companies with activities across 104 countries working to decarbonize the oil and gas sector at scale.
· OGCI’s members are Aramco, bp, Chevron, CNPC, Eni, Equinor, ExxonMobil, Occidental, Petrobras, Repsol, Shell and TotalEnergies.
· Read more about OGCI’s progress in our annual Progress Report.
