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Short answers on flaring, methane, costs and carbon rules in oil and gas. To see them worked out with your own operating data, book a demo.
Carbonova connects SCADA, flow-metering and energy data to CarbonOS, a platform of AI agents that calculates emissions by source (combustion, flaring, venting, and fugitives estimated from process data), flags drift and ranks measures by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. Carbonova Sense, now at pilot stage, infers a flare’s combustion state on the asset itself. The same dataset feeds GHG Protocol, ISSB-aligned and customer reporting, with an audit trail back to the source.
The largest sources are fuel burned for power and gas compression, flaring, and methane released through venting and leaks. The world flared 167 billion cubic metres of gas in 2025, the third annual increase in a row (World Bank, 2026). And around 70% of methane emissions from fossil fuels could be cut with technology that already exists (IEA, 2026).
The EU Methane Regulation bans routine venting and flaring, requires new flare stacks to have an auto-igniter or continuous pilot and a design destruction efficiency of at least 99%, and required the first verified source-level reports by 5 February 2026. Refineries are outside it: their flaring falls under the refining best-practice conclusions, and their CO₂ under the EU ETS, which also covers combustion plant above 20 MW.
Installations in the EU Emissions Trading System, which includes refineries and combustion plant above 20 MW, surrender one allowance per tonne of CO₂, and EU ETS auction prices averaged €82.32 per tonne in the third quarter of 2026. Every tonne avoided by recovering flare gas or cutting fuel use saves that cost, and the recovered gas can be sold. Carbonova ranks those measures by cost per tonne avoided.
Sense, now at pilot stage, runs on the asset and combines radiometric LWIR thermal imaging, RGB vision and an acoustic proxy to infer the flare’s state: lit and normal, smoking, degraded, flameout, venting or no flow. Operators see at once when the flame goes out or combustion degrades. Vented methane is quantified only for confirmed venting, from SCADA flow data. Sense is not a methane sensor and does not detect leaks.
Yes. Every value has lineage back to its source in SCADA, ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, or meters, plus a versioned emission factor and a change history, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard. That matters because methane reporting is moving from estimates to measurement: OGMP 2.0, the industry’s reference framework, has 153 member companies covering 42% of global oil and gas production (UNEP, 2025).
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