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Tallgrass to track, measure emissions on U.S. interstate natgas pipeline By Reuters

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© Reuters. FILEPHOTO: Tallgrass Energy’s pumping station is shown in Guernsey (Wyoming), U.S.A, on January 17, 2017. Photograph taken January 17, 2017. REUTERS/David Gaffen/File Photo

By Liz Hampton

DENVER (Reuters) – Tallgrass Energy Partners will begin monitoring emissions, including methane and other greenhouse gases, on its Rockies Express Pipeline, making it the first U.S. company to measure and certify the environmental impact of operations on an interstate pipeline.

Third-party ratings and carbon reduction measures are being adopted by natural gas producers and transporters, as well as utilities. This is to demonstrate that they care about the environment and show customers and investors that they have a serious commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Tallgrass and Project Canary, a carbon-measurement company, will install monitoring devices at the compressor stations on the 1,700-mile pipe to assess the environmental impacts of their operations. They will be able to measure fugitive methane emission in real-time.

Matt Sheehy (president of Tallgrass) stated that buyers want to be assured natural gas will only ever be produced and transported in an environmentally-friendly manner.

Producers and utilities have been gaining momentum in natural gas certification over the last year. Project Canary has as customers EQT Corp (NYSE 🙂 and NextDecade, an LNG-project developer (NASDAQ :). MiQ, another firm that applies measurements to help manage carbon emissions, has signed Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) and Chesapeake Energy Corp (NYSE:) to use its methodologies.

Chris Romer from Project Canary, CEO of Project Canary said that pipeline operators have been an “untapped resource” in reducing emissions. He said that it is currently in talks with over a dozen pipeline operators to examine and certify their emissions footprints.

Rockies Express Pipeline transports gas up to 4.4 million cubic feet daily between northern Colorado and eastern Ohio. Tallgrass holds 75% of the line. Phillips 66 (NYSE 🙂 has the remainder.

Project Canary will be the partner of Colorado School of Mines in this certification process.

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