Climate Change: Case Study

CLIENT: International Petroleum Company

TASK: GHG Management Strategy and Inventory Assistance

LOCATION: International corporate assets including North America, Europe, Africa and Asia

First Environment is currently assisting an international petroleum company in the development of its first third party verifiable GHG inventory. Though the corporation has been tracking GHG emissions for several years, advancements in inventory best practices and increasing importance of this information in the industry resulted in interest in developing an enhanced inventory program that could support further GHG management activities. Because of its involvement in GHG inventory protocol development, particularly the ISO 14064 GHG quantification, reporting and verification standard, First Environment was asked to support development of an international inventory for the organization.

Initial work included strategic consulting on the inventory approach, based on our GHG experience and guidance provided in widely accepted GHG protocols and other reference documents. Initial deliverables included specific recommendations for developing an overall GHG inventory structure and a white paper on pitfalls of inventory development efforts.

First Environment also assisted this organization with the development of its GHG inventory system and associated documentation. The primary current focus of work was a customized GHG inventory protocol in which the organization defined its inventory boundaries, identified calculation methodologies and established a reporting process. The structure of the inventory program consists of international facilities reporting production information and operations activity data to the corporation to enable GHG quantification, reporting and verification.