Offering a robust suite of high-precision hardware and integrated software solutions, Ecotec enables auditable measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, ensuring clients are able to comply with the most demanding environmental regulations while often also qualifying for carbon credits and other environmental attributes.
Ecotec’s primary focus lies in helping operators solve methane emissions, driven by three primary reasons. Firstly, methane possesses a serious health risk to operators due to its explosive nature. Secondly, the potential damages resulting from methane leaks catching fire can exceed $1 million, aside from the evident human safety concerns. Finally, in the context of global warming, methane is 84x more potent than CO2 over a 20-year time horizon– and it is almost always emitted to the atmosphere unintentionally.
Central to Ecotec’s offerings is the seamless integration of proven detection technologies with advanced software, creating a holistic digital ecosystem that simplifies data management. This system supports efficient data collection, analysis, and reporting, helping clients meet regulatory requirements, optimize resource utilization, and improve operational efficiency. It prioritizes personnel and asset safety while contributing to global environmental preservation.
Through continuous innovation, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions, Ecotec has reinforced its market dominance, expanded its technological reach, and underscored a commitment to environmental conservation. Its evolution reflects a journey of adaptability and excellence, transitioning from its initial focus on the biogas and landfill sectors to a broader influence across the natural gas upstream, midstream, and distribution industries. This progression highlights an ability to navigate complex regulatory and operational landscapes, establishing Ecotec as a distinguished leader in its field.
Our Goal Is To Bolster The Safety And Profitability Of Our Clients, While Significantly Reducing Their Carbon Footprint
“Our approach to fostering collaboration and drawing insights from various sectors has enhanced our solutions and enabled us to enter adjacent markets successfully, bringing novel, best-in-class solutions to our clients,” says CEO Tim Novick, emphasizing the importance of understanding client needs and challenges.
This narrative of innovation, dedication to customers, and a commitment to sustainability solidifies Ecotec’s vital role in boosting operational efficiency and environmental protection.
Redefining Safety and Efficiency with the Gazoscan
Among Ecotec’s arsenal, one of the most widely used tools is the Gazoscan, a game-changing remote methane emission detector. Lightweight, user-friendly and certified as intrinsically safe, the Gazoscan provides unparalleled efficiency in leak detection and increased operator safety. Its innovative design represents a transition from traditional closed-cell, tunable diode lasers to open-path alternatives.
Unlike closed-cell systems analyzing pumped air, open-path lasers emit beams that reflect off surfaces much like shining a flashlight in the dark, measuring methane between the device and the surface. This scanner detects emissions from distances over 330 feet (>100m) with a rapid 0.1-second response time and 5ppm per meter sensitivity, ensuring precise results. Its advanced technology even allows detection through glass windows for comprehensive coverage.
The Gazoscan offers a 360˚ view, enabling operators to scan for fugitive surface and penetration emissions from a single location. Integrated mobile phone applications allow users to document field indications with photos and notes, which are transferrable via Bluetooth for further analysis. Operators ensure compliance with safe distance investigation guidelines and conduct subsequent remediation activities, staying informed with customizable visual and audio alarms for added safety.
This proactive compliance and safety capability with customizable alarms prove instrumental in the upstream and midstream sectors – where the environment is often hazardous and the risk of explosions is ever-present. The Gazoscan provides reliable measurements aligned with safety guidelines and aids in avoiding explosive gas blast radiuses. This feature has garnered interest from fire and hazmat crews, who use it to establish safe zones outside potential blast areas when responding to leak incidents, highlighting its invaluable role in ensuring safety and minimizing risks.
Operators continually discover novel applications and derive significant value from the Gazoscan’s capabilities, highlighting its mission-critical impact on safety protocols in the upstream and midstream sectors. The satisfaction of Ecotec’s customers with the Gazoscan underscores its growing adoption across industries, consistently improving safety, reducing capital expenses, and minimizing environmental footprints simultaneously.
Integration Strategies Fueling Innovation
Ecotec stands at the forefront of innovation and client satisfaction, driving growth through its dual strategic integration fronts–horizontal and vertical stacks. The company’s horizontal integration strategy enables the seamless delivery of solutions across adjacent industries which allows Ecotec to be at the forefront of thought leadership as unique best practices can be translated from one industry to the next. Its vertical integration leverages complementary technologies to address specific customer challenges, enhance customer satisfaction and foster loyalty by providing comprehensive solutions that negate the need for multiple providers.
As an example, Ecotec has developed a new system for direct measurement and quantification of methane leaks. The Company did so by using current known and field-proven technologies to directly measure flow rate combined with high-accuracy methane measurement to provide users with emission rates so they can better report, understand, and potentially monetize reductions in those emissions. This came about as a result of existing Gazoscan customers who needed a secondary tool for directly measuring emissions from packing vents, methane slip from engines and compressors, and orphaned and abandoned wells. The operators were using the Gazoscan to locate these leaks but needed a complimentary product offering using the same tunable diode laser technology for direct quantification. This system has been able to decrease the labor hours necessary and increase the accuracy of results for Ecotec’s clients.
In the competitive arenas of landfill and biogas, gas distribution, and oil and gas, Ecotec offers state-of-the-art hardware and software solutions for precise and reliable gas emission measurement and reporting. Products range from portable, handheld devices to field-tested scanning tools equipped with molecule-specific, tunable diode lasers for exclusive methane detection and fixed analyzers that offer real-time data on gas composition. This suite of products ensures that third-party auditors can confidently verify data, empowering operators to properly record emissions events or sell credits efficiently.
Ecotec’s tailored solutions cater to industry needs, from fence line monitoring for fugitive methane emissions to inline gas measurement for facilities such as digesters and renewable natural gas plants. By expanding their toolkit with Ecotec products, clients gain access to advanced detection and measurement technologies and benefit from enhanced process automation.
Transforming Client Operations
The Gazoscan’s capabilities were recently highlighted in a client engagement story where operators routinely walked into potentially explosive environments, relying on personal monitors, posing safety risks. With the tool, they now conduct preventative maintenance scans before entering hazardous areas. These proactive safety measures mitigate potential risks by identifying and addressing leak points before they can cause harm. Engine fires and operational disruptions have been reduced significantly, safeguarding assets and preventing costly downtime.
On another occasion, a customer utilized the Gazoscan to perform preventative maintenance scans of various natural gas assets. The operator was able to decrease the time of a preventative maintenance scan by 75 percent, while increasing the reliability and thoroughness of the scan.
With the overarching goal of delivering added value to clients, Ecotec acquires new companies to expand its product range, improve technological capabilities in niche sectors and enter new markets. This includes brands like AQMESH, Gas Data, Oxigraf and GAZOMAT, which specialize in air quality monitoring systems, gas analyzers and highperformance detectors for gas networks, pipelines and emergency responders. These strategic acquisitions have enabled Ecotec to harness the strengths of each entity, optimize resource allocation, and foster innovation. It cultivates a culture of continuous innovation through a collaborative approach and integration of complementary technologies, effectively meeting a wider range of industry needs.
Integrated Software Ecosystem for Operational Excellence
Ecotec’s cloud software platform integrates data from monitoring, detection and measurement tools into a unified digital ecosystem. This simplifies data processing and aggregation and automates reporting for internal management and regulatory compliance, resulting in streamlined, time-effective, safe and error-free operations.
“Operators can reduce man-hours associated with documentation and remotely pull all that data, realizing efficiency gains in their system. Integrating emission monitoring and data collection ensures complete traceability and transparency for audit purposes,” says Novick.
On the emission management front, Ecotec has introduced an Emissions Engine that complements its Compliance Engine software ecosystem. Operators conduct surveys using portable and field-ready instruments paired with mobile phone applications. The app records measurement locations and detected emissions, creating a comprehensive digital repository of survey activities and findings, akin to Google Maps tracking a route. The ecosystem records all pertinent data with complete traceability in a framework designed to facilitate third-party auditing–such as the kind that may be necessary if publicly traded companies are to report Scope 1 emissions within their SEC filings.
Operators upload pipeline data into the system, creating informative dashboards. Survey progress and field activities are monitored in real-time, with the ability to track vehicles and personnel. This data aggregation enables operators to ensure that field agents meet their survey targets. After digitization, various survey operators analyze the correlated data while providing inputs.
Ecotec’s software solutions have evolved significantly, featuring real-time tracking, customizable dashboards and automated reporting. They’ve set a new standard for precision, reliability and user-friendliness in greenhouse gas monitoring and management, reaching a pinnacle in sophistication.
With such an innovative product portfolio and unique software ecosystem, Ecotec has empowered numerous businesses to leverage contemporary technologies for compliance, operational efficiency and environmental conservation.
Charting a Course for Sustainable Success
Ecotec’s mission transcends traditional business objectives. This ethos embodies its commitment to delivering comprehensive solutions that harmonize economic viability with environmental stewardship.
“Our goal is to bolster the safety and profitability of our clients while significantly reducing their carbon footprint,” Novick articulates.
At the heart of Ecotec’s success lies a relentless pursuit of innovation and unmatched customer service. It distinguishes itself by supplying not just instruments but comprehensive, sustainable solutions tailored to customers’ unique operational contexts. It goes beyond the sale, ensuring meticulous installation and offering customized training to optimize instrument performance. This enhances operational efficiency and minimizes the environmental impact, creating a win- win scenario for the business and the planet.
Ecotec’s dedication to sustainability is evident in its response to the pressing demands of energy transition, netzero ambitions and the global imperative to mitigate climate change. Focusing on environmental technology and services, it supports businesses in navigating the complexities of emission regulations and sustainability goals. Long-term partnerships are fostered to contribute to mutual growth and adaptation to changing industry landscapes.
Looking to the future, Novick is optimistic about the transformative potential within the energy sector.
“The current focus on fossil fuel emissions is not just a challenge but a significant opportunity for the oil and gas industry. We see leaders every day demonstrating world-class innovation by reducing their environmental footprint while optimizing operations at the same time,” Novick observes.
In this transition, Ecotec is poised to play a pivotal role by providing advanced monitoring and measurement systems that enable operators to refine processes and produce highquality, eco- friendly gas. Its solutions promise enhanced efficiency, regulatory compliance and increased profitability, all while prioritizing environmental conservation. Solutions tailored to client needs, a wealth of expertise rooted in engineering and consulting principles, and safety and environmental responsibility aligned with business success enable Ecotec to pave the way toward a more sustainable and profitable future in environmental technology.
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