Italgas: Picarro Surveyor, Advanced Laser Technology to Monitor Gas Networks

Picarro is a leading provider of asset management solutions for the natural gas industry.

Picarro is the global leader in emissions measurement and reduction, pipe replacement, and advanced leak survey solutions. Watch this quick video to understand how we enable Natural Gas Operators to reduce methane emissions and improve the safety of their infrastructure.

Picarro's Director of Sales & Client Engagement in LATAM, Malvin Delgado, giving an overview of Picarro's vehicle hardware.

Picarro's Senior Director of Business Development in EMEA, Renato Winkler, gives an overview of Picarro's vehicle hardware.

WEI, Picarro, and Pacific Gas and Electric Webinar 2021

This webinar was co-presented by Picarro Inc., CenterPoint Energy, and the Southern Gas Assocation.

Conventional Distribution Integrity Risk (DIM) models typically rely on historical and static parameters to predict risk. In this webinar, you'll learn how mobile Advanced Leak Detection (ALD) enables you to augment your DIM program with real-time methane data. With this improved model you can produce a more predictive and granular view of risk and optimize important capital investment decisions such as pipe replacement initiatives.

Advanced Leak Detection with ALS Asset Integrity & Reliability and Picarro

Five percent of leaks account for fifty percent of your emissions. Find them using advanced leak detection and analytics. Learn how you can identify and eliminate super emitters at unprecedented speed and scale with Picarro.

5% wycieków odpowiada za 50% Twoich emisji. Znajdź je, korzystając z zaawansowanego wykrywania i analizy nieszczelności. Dowiedz się, jak Picarro może pomóc Ci zidentyfikować i wyeliminować superemitery z niespotykaną dotąd szybkością i skalą.5% wycieków odpowiada za 50% Twoich emisji. Znajdź je, korzystając z zaawansowanego wykrywania i analizy nieszczelności. Dowiedz się, jak Picarro może pomóc Ci zidentyfikować i wyeliminować superemitery z niespotykaną dotąd szybkością i skalą.

5 % der Lecks machen 50 % Ihrer Emissionen aus. Finden Sie sie mithilfe der fortschrittlichen Lecksuche und -analyse. Erfahren Sie, wie Picarro Ihnen dabei helfen kann, Superemitter in beispielloser Geschwindigkeit und Größenordnung zu identifizieren und zu eliminieren.

5% dos vazamentos representam 50% das suas emissões. Encontre-os usando detecção e análise avançadas de vazamentos. Saiba como a Picarro pode ajudá-lo a identificar e eliminar superemissores em velocidade e escala sem precedentes.

5 % úniků tvoří 50 % vašich emisí. Najděte je pomocí pokročilé detekce úniků a analýzy. Zjistěte, jak můžete identifikovat a eliminovat super emitory bezprecedentní rychlostí a rozsahem s Picarro.

This brochure offer a quick glance into Picarro's four primary use cases and how they may impact your operations.

Paolo Gallo, Chief Executive Officer of ItalGas shares his thoughts as Key Note speaker for the 2022 Picarro Gas Community Conference

Tom Dockery, Sr. Director of Client Delivery and Support at Picarro sits down with Jeff Goetzman, Manager of Technical Field Operations of CenterPoint Energy and Stefano Guglielmo, Head of Grid Management of Italgas to discuss Scaling ALD and the internal and external change management.

Julien Klein, Sr. Director of Product Management, chats with Francois Rongere, Sr. Director, Solution Architect, Climate and Safety and Sean MacMullin, Sr. Director, Software and Data Analytics regarding wide emissions quantification.

Our esteemed panel discusses the benefits of leveraging real-time methane data to optimize pipeline replacement projects and capital expense decisions.

Milano (Italia), Santa Clara (California-USA) — 2 March 2022 - Italgas strengthened its partnership with Picarro Inc. through the acquisition of a minority share of the US company, a leading technology start-up in the field of sensors applied to the monitoring of gas distribution networks, as well as in technologies designed for those sectors requiring extremely sensitive measurements, such as environmental measurements of the concentration of Hazardous Air Pollutants and the electronics industry for the detection of impurities in semiconductor foundries.

Picarro Natural Gas Big Data and Efficiency Nick Stavropoulos, Executive VP Gas Operations at PG&E discusses Picarro and the importance of leveraging big data to transform.

Jeff Goetzman, Manager, Texas Technical Field Operations at CenterPoint Energy, shares his experience using Picarro

Sue Fleck, VP of Gas Pipeline Safety and Compliance National Grid discusses Picarro's Natural Gas Asset Management Solution.

Enjoy the content from the 2022 North American Picarro Community Conference, held in Santa Clara, CA, in an easy-to-digest PDF format.

Natural gas stoves in >40 million U.S. residences release methane (CH4)--a potent greenhouse gas--through post-meter leaks and incomplete combustion. We quantified methane released in 53 homes during all phases of stove use: steady-state-off (appliance not in use), steady-state-on (during combustion), and transitory periods of ignition and extinguishment. We estimated that natural gas stoves emit 0.8−1.3% of the gas they use as unburned methane and that total U.S. stove emissions are 28.1 [95% confidence interval: 18.5, 41.2] Gg CH4 year−1.

Combination of Advanced Analytics and Technology Will Enable Accurate Methane Emissions Quantification and Aid in Efficient Leak Detection 

Combination of P-Cubed Analytics Software and Advanced Methane Detection Hardware Recognized for Excellence in Energy Management

Watch this how to video on Picarro equipment focusing on the vertical stack and module connectivity.

Watch this how to video on how to install Picarro equipment, focusing on how to mount the tablet in your vehicle.

Watch how to install Picarro equipment focusing on the baseboard installation and how to locate the vertical stack.

Highlights of how to equip your fleet with Picarro.

Instructional video on how to install Picarro focusing specifically on the roofrack and peripherals necessary for a complete system installation.

How to video on how to install Picarro, focusing on the bumperline installation.

How to video on how to conduct a LISA Investigation with Picarro.

Italgas expands fleet to 20 Picarro-equipped vehicles to accelerate efforts to reduce emissions and ensure public safety 

Santa Clara, CA, April 12 , 2021 — Picarro Inc., the industry leader in analytics-driven leak detection and methane emissions quantification solutions, will be participating in the Western Energy Institute’s Operations Conference. The annual event held online April 19-22 brings together over 600 electric and natural gas energy operations senior leaders, managers, supervisors, and front-line employees for three days of education and networking, with breakout discussions. 

Picarro’s solutions are focused on helping our customers operate cost-effective, safe and clean gas networks.

Former PG&E Exec to Lead Energy Division of Premiere Natural Gas Asset Management Company

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. 

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.  

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.

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.

There are three primary ways in which odor call rates can be reduced using the Picarro system.

Picarro offers a comprehensive suite of analytics tools to provide visibility into your natural gas infrastructure at a degree of accuracy not possible.

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.

～ Domestic Deployment of Natural Gas Pipeline Inspection Service by Using Vehicle-based Methane Concentration Measurement System and Analytics ～

The newly promulgated regulations under 40 CFR 63 Subpart O have undergone profound changes from their prior version, through the draft regulation issuance and public comment period, to the present day. Amy Moore with Trinity Consultants reviews these changes and discusses the unique challenges and array of compliance options available under the new requirements.

This study addressed the scarcity of NH3 measurements in urban Europe and the diverse monitoring protocols,
hindering direct data comparison. Sixty-nine datasets from Finland, France, Italy, Spain, and the UK across
various site types, including industrial (IND, 8), traffic (TR, 12), urban (UB, 22), suburban (SUB, 12), and
regional background (RB, 15), are analyzed to this study. Among these, 26 sites provided 5, or more, years of
data for time series analysis. Despite varied protocols, necessitating future harmonization, the average NH3

The Picarro SI2108 gas concentration analyzer can provide real-time monitoring of hydrogen chloride (HCl) at a parts-per-trillion (ppt) sensitivity for a variety of applications, including indoor and outdoor air quality, atmospheric science, and hazard assessment.

Fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from hydroelectric and water supply reservoirs are
receiving increasing attention around the world with a number of research groups having undertaken measurements
of these emissions across a range of lakes and reservoirs located in different climates and landscapes.
The use of floating chambers (aka flux chambers) is the most common technique for direct
measurement of these fluxes. However, the relative performance of different measurement systems, especially

Microwave extraction–isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy (ME-IRIS): a novel technique for rapid extraction and in-line analysis of δ18ORATIONALE

Traditionally, stable isotope analysis of plant and soil water has been a technically challenging, labour-intensive and time-consuming process. Here we describe a rapid single-step technique which combines Microwave Extraction with Isotope Ratio Infrared Spectroscopy (ME-IRIS).

METHODS

Stable isotopes in the water molecule (2H or D and 18O), carbon, and nitrogen are useful tracers and integrators of processes in plant ecohydrological systems across scales. Over the last few years, there has been growing interest in regional to continental scale synthesis of stable isotope data with a view to elucidating biogeochemical and ecohydrological patterns. Published datasets from the humid tropics, however, are limited.

The ability to measure the stable isotopic composition of plant and soil waters, surface waters and ambient atmospheric vapor is essential to understanding an ecosystem's water budget, including how water cycles between the air, plants and the subsurface. With the advent of laser-based spectroscopy, e.g., Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS), the isotopic analysis of waters has become increasingly cost-effective and prevalent, with comparable precision to conventional isotope ratio mass spectrometry methods.

The demanding precision of triple oxygen isotope (17O) measurements in water has restricted its measurement to dual-inlet mass spectrometry until the recent development of commercially available infrared-laser analyzers, including cavity ringdown spectrometers (CRDS). 17O is now increasingly measured by laboratories in order to better constrain the source and history of meteoric waters.