OGCI Paper: Results of OGCI Satellite Monitoring Campaign 2022-2023 over Kazakhstan, Algeria and Egypt

In 2022-2023, OGCI extended its flagship Satellite Monitoring Campaign (SMC) to Algeria, Kazakhstan and Egypt to support more countries taking practical action to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas operations.

A successful pilot of the SMC in Iraq in 2021 had already demonstrated the capability of satellite technology to detect and quantify methane emissions and provide information to local operators to help them reduce emissions. Detection and measurement of methane emissions is a critically important first step to reducing methane emissions.

For this latest phase of the campaign, greenhouse gas monitoring company GHGSat performed over 530 high-resolution observations during one year over a total of 18 pre-selected sites (six per country), using its own satellites and public satellite data