In January, The Environmental Partnership and Colorado State University’s Methane Emissions Test and Evaluation Center (METEC) held a two-day workshop at the METEC research facilities in Fort Collins to learn about recent and planned methane monitoring experiments and gain input from operators on revised testing protocols to better evaluate monitoring technologies.

Operators also toured METEC’s research testing site, where vendors and operators trial methane detection technologies and provided input on METEC’s planned expansion. Attendees and METEC research scientists offered operational strategies and basin- and site-specific nuance in their feedback to help ensure that future research is applicable to real-world operations and across a variety of different sites.

The collaboration between TEP and CSU researchers has been foundational to the program since its start. “METEC makes us [as operators] better consumers,” one TEP operator said during roundtables, highlighting the importance of METEC’s role as a third-party expert evaluator of monitoring technologies. Operators agreed that attending workshops with METEC furthers their education in methane mitigation and monitoring strategies.

Presentations from the METEC Workshop are available to Participants here.