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measurement facility to provide meter traceability for Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) deployment. Funded by the Department for Business,
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technology company with headquarters in Cardiff and operations in Bristol and San Francisco, has announced the closing of its Series-A funding and the signing of a Collaboration Agreement with Schlumberger. With support from Innovate UK, QLM has developed a new type of LiDAR (laser imaging, detection, and ranging) camera based on quantum technology that can see and accurately quantify greenhouse gas emissions. The gas imager enables customers to monitor, detect and accurately locate and quantify Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission sources for rapid repair. A related version of the product enables remote quantification of flare efficiency. “The technology is unique in the emissions
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monitoring marketplace in its potential to achieve the greatest amount of GHG abatement at the lowest cost of ownership,” says Murray Reed, chief executive officer, QLM. “The funding and strategic relationship with our new lead investor, Schlumberger, and expanded backing of initial and new investors will allow us to scale our manufacturing, enabling significant cost reduction, as we launch our solution into the various GHG-intensive industries and markets.” Through the strategic collaboration,
QLM’s technology will be part of the new Schlumberger End-to-end Emissions Solutions (SEES) business offering for the oil and gas industry. SEES’s methane monitoring offering is based on previous investments in satellite-, airplane-, and drone-mounted sensors, along with additional sensors developed internally. QLM’s differentiated LiDAR technology complements those mobile monitors by providing accurate and sensitive
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measurements where continuous monitoring is required. The ability to quantify flare efficiency will ensure optimal efficiency for flares that cannot yet be eliminated. “SEES selects partners following rigorous
technical evaluation to identify innovative technology that complements our existing measurement solutions,” says Kahina Abdeli-Galinier, emissions business director, Schlumberger. “The unique QLM LiDAR technology will allow operators to continuously monitor their facilities for methane emissions, and the technology is differentiated in its ability to detect even small emissions; to quantify emission rates accurately; to provide actionable information by locating the emission source precisely; and to fit upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities of all sizes.” Beyond emissions monitoring for the oil and
gas market, the QLM solution is well-suited for use in tracking and reducing methane emissions in other applications such as in biogas production, at landfills, at wastewater treatment plants, and in coal mines. In addition to lead investment from
Schlumberger, existing investors Green Angel Syndicate, Enterprise100 Syndicate, Development Bank of Wales, Newable Ventures, and several private investors joined in this round of funding, as well as new investors Quantum Exponential and Susten.
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Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), through the National Measurement System mechanism, the facility will support UK targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 68 per cent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, and achieve net zero by 2050. Providing flow testing for gaseous
CO2 meters to traceable national standards, the facility will be located in East Kilbride, Glasgow Gabriele Chinello, head of CCUS, TÜV SÜD
National Engineering Laboratory said: “CCUS is a critical part of the overall solutions toolbox
that will help reduce global CO2 emissions. With a growing need and demand for CCUS technology deployment, measurement traceability is key for regulatory compliance, as well as for a widespread and equitable CCUS trading system, including government subsidies. It must therefore be directly linked to national physical standards, as much of hydrocarbon production measurement already is. This facility will support the deployment of CCUS across the UK and beyond to meet net-zero targets.”
ÜV SÜD National Engineering has secured Government funding to build the UK’s first gaseous carbon dioxide (CO2) flow
Organisations such as the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UK’s Committee on Climate Change acknowledge that CCUS is a necessity, not an option, to meet net-zero targets. Apart from off-setting the direct end- use of fossil fuels and decarbonising difficult to abate industrial sectors, CCUS is also required to produce ‘blue-hydrogen’ through steam methane reforming, as well as to provide negative carbon dioxide emissions. TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory is
the UK Designated Institute for Flow Measurement, under contract from BEIS, and part of the UK’s National Measurement System.
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