Sphera Case Studies Husky Energy Expands GHG Emissions Reporting to Meet Growing Compliance and Sustainability Requirements

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Husky Energy Expands GHG Emissions Reporting to Meet Growing Compliance and Sustainability Requirements

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Oil & Gas
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Regulatory Compliance Monitoring
Services	Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Husky Energy, one of Canada’s largest energy companies, was faced with the challenge of expanding its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting to meet growing compliance and sustainability requirements. In 2010, the government of British Columbia issued its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Reporting Regulation, which required companies to provide much more granular data. The new rules meant that Husky’s reporting obligations grew from 12 facilities with 14 pieces of equipment to over 136 facilities with 858 pieces of equipment. The company now needed to report on all well-level drilling emissions as well as tracking and reporting emissions down to the equipment level. This presented a significant challenge in terms of data management and reporting. Read More
About Customer	Husky Energy Inc. is one of Canada’s largest energy companies, committed to managing business in a socially responsible manner, focused on sustainable development and environmental stewardship. To achieve this strategic goal, Husky’s managers constantly monitor, assess and report on the company’s progress with their Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS) – an enterprise-wide information hub built on Sphera opsInfo™ software, part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™. EPRS enables Husky to track and calculate environmental performance in areas such as production energy intensity and carbon intensity index with improved accuracy and increased frequency. Read More
Solution	To meet these new challenges, Husky Energy expanded its Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS), an enterprise-wide information hub built on Sphera opsInfo™ software, part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™. The EPRS enabled Husky to track and calculate environmental performance in areas such as production energy intensity and carbon intensity index with improved accuracy and increased frequency. Husky changed the way that the data was being both collected and viewed. Much of the data required for GHG reporting had to be gathered from the field and ground-level operations at multiple facilities. Husky launched a business process improvement project to capture that data more efficiently. Operators were made responsible to ensure their data was made available in the systems that interface directly with EPRS. This improved transparency and accountability for audits, and the time savings were dramatic – instead of waiting up to 30 days to receive data from remote locations, the information was already there so it only took a few minutes to generate a report. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Oil & Gas

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Husky Energy, one of Canada’s largest energy companies, was faced with the challenge of expanding its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting to meet growing compliance and sustainability requirements. In 2010, the government of British Columbia issued its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Reporting Regulation, which required companies to provide much more granular data. The new rules meant that Husky’s reporting obligations grew from 12 facilities with 14 pieces of equipment to over 136 facilities with 858 pieces of equipment. The company now needed to report on all well-level drilling emissions as well as tracking and reporting emissions down to the equipment level. This presented a significant challenge in terms of data management and reporting.

About Customer

Husky Energy Inc. is one of Canada’s largest energy companies, committed to managing business in a socially responsible manner, focused on sustainable development and environmental stewardship. To achieve this strategic goal, Husky’s managers constantly monitor, assess and report on the company’s progress with their Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS) – an enterprise-wide information hub built on Sphera opsInfo™ software, part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™. EPRS enables Husky to track and calculate environmental performance in areas such as production energy intensity and carbon intensity index with improved accuracy and increased frequency.

Solution

To meet these new challenges, Husky Energy expanded its Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS), an enterprise-wide information hub built on Sphera opsInfo™ software, part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™. The EPRS enabled Husky to track and calculate environmental performance in areas such as production energy intensity and carbon intensity index with improved accuracy and increased frequency. Husky changed the way that the data was being both collected and viewed. Much of the data required for GHG reporting had to be gathered from the field and ground-level operations at multiple facilities. Husky launched a business process improvement project to capture that data more efficiently. Operators were made responsible to ensure their data was made available in the systems that interface directly with EPRS. This improved transparency and accountability for audits, and the time savings were dramatic – instead of waiting up to 30 days to receive data from remote locations, the information was already there so it only took a few minutes to generate a report.

Impact #1	Enhanced enterprise-wide Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS)
Impact #2	Expanded system – in only one year – from 12 to 136 facilities and 14 to 858 pieces of equipment to maintain compliance
Impact #3	Proactively recommended an alternative data capture approach for GHG regulations and received government agency approval

Impact #1

Enhanced enterprise-wide Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS)

Impact #2

Expanded system – in only one year – from 12 to 136 facilities and 14 to 858 pieces of equipment to maintain compliance

Impact #3

Proactively recommended an alternative data capture approach for GHG regulations and received government agency approval

Benefit #1	Expanded system from 12 to 136 facilities
Benefit #2	Expanded system from 14 to 858 pieces of equipment
Benefit #3	Reduced data waiting time from 30 days to minutes

Benefit #1

Expanded system from 12 to 136 facilities

Benefit #2

Expanded system from 14 to 858 pieces of equipment

Benefit #3

Reduced data waiting time from 30 days to minutes

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Husky Energy Expands GHG Emissions Reporting to Meet Growing Compliance and Sustainability Requirements

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