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.

The Picarro natural gas asset management system pinpoints leaks where traditional leak survey equipment sometimes fails to accurately do so.

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.

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. 

Picarro’s solution enables emissions data to be taken rapidly at scale. Emissions reductions are easily quantified for individual pipe replacement projects, individual leak repairs as well as across a network. Large emitters, which frequently contribute disproportionately to emissions reduction goals, can be easily identified so they are remediated first as part of an informed and cost-effective emission reduction strategy.

Utilities worldwide are using Picarro’s Asset Management Solution to further improve the choices they make regarding capital pipe replacement projects informed by traditional risk models. The Picarro solution combines data analytics with a vehicle-based methane emissions data collection platform to assist with capital replacement decisions. This leads to significant O&M cost savings through avoided leak repair by prioritizing replacements of pipelines with high leak densities. When this data is combined with traditional risk (DIMP) models, such benefits are maximized.

No matter the regulatory environment, Picarro’s natural gas asset management solution enables natural gas distribution compliance that can be truly risk-based in its approach. A recent trend within the natural gas industry has been to increasingly take a risk-based approach to asset management, in this case, shifting schedules from periodic to being more driven by the particular risk profile of the infrastructure in a given localized area.

Picarro’s mobile leak detection solution – combining data analytics with an advanced vehicle-based methane emissions data collection platform – now allows natural gas leak plume data to be collected and interpreted at a speed and scale not previously possible. Further, advances in Big Data Analytics allow better-informed conclusions to be drawn from that data and enable improved decision making and outcomes.