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. A recent example is described here, demonstrating how this combination of methane data and data analytics is being developed in a partnership between Picarro and a utility to measurably accelerate risk reduction and simultaneously reduce Operations & Maintenance costs (O&M) at the utility.