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Natural Gas Knowledge Center

Discover more about the key benefits and applications for natural gas 

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Application Brief // Risk Mapping
Picarro’s Risk Mapping capabilities combine Picarro’s real-time methane data with powerful analytical tools that enable an unprecedented level of detail of the risk within a gas network. This level of granularity in both time and space delivers the best understanding available of system risk and gives immediately actionable insight for faster risk reduction. 
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Application Brief // Compliance and Forecasting
Picarro’s forecasting analytics offer a high-resolution, predictive model of future compliance and repair labor requirements. This means a highly accurate understanding of compliance and repair requirements before labor is scheduled and deployed.  
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Application Brief // Construction Optimization
Picarro’s methane data and analytics provide insight into a number of applications in overall asset management – examples include pipe replacement prioritization, emissions reduction, accelerated risk reduction, etc. An additional benefit is in optimizing construction projects by identifying adjacent construction opportunities and opportunities for bundling construction work.
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Application Brief // Change Management
Picarro helps customers plan and execute the transformation to a digital workflow environment and helps facilitate successful change in gas asset management processes to deliver improved business performance and achieve business benefits.
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Application Brief // Odor Call Reduction
There are three primary ways in which odor call rates can be reduced using the Picarro system.
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Solution Brief // Picarro Analytics
Picarro offers a comprehensive suite of analytics tools to provide visibility into your natural gas infrastructure at a degree of accuracy not possible.
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Application Brief // Compliance
Picarro’s asset management solution increases the efficiency and quality of compliance as compared to traditional leak survey methods. Natural gas operators around the world use Picarro’s asset management solution for advanced mobile compliance. The Picarro solution significantly increases the number of hazardous leaks that can be found and removed from a gas infrastructure as compared to traditional leak survey and the Picarro process is also faster and less costly than traditional leak survey.
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Application Brief // Leak Pinpointing
The Picarro natural gas asset management system pinpoints leaks where traditional leak survey equipment sometimes fails to accurately do so.
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Use Cases
The ability of the Picarro system to measure a large area quickly and quantify the relative risk of leak indications has made it popular with multiple natural gas utilities for emergency response in communities after disasters and other catastrophic events.
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Application Brief // Emergency Response
The ability of the Picarro system to measure a large area quickly and quantify the relative risk of leak indications has made it popular with multiple natural gas utilities for emergency response in communities after disasters and other events.