75% of your leaks—and revenue losses—are going unnoticed

But zero emissions ARE possible for your Midstream sector!

Are you achieving zero emissions for your midstream assets? Probably not right? If you’re using off-the-shelf leak detection technology, the vast majority of your leaks are silently running wild. Lasen has the only airborne tech in the oil & gas industry scientifically tuned to “see” methane in the Mid IR region, the main absorption band of methane. Our LiDAR instrument payload is simply mounted onto a helicopter and flown over your asset, with a detailed report on your desk within 24 hours.

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The laser used in ALPIS (Airborne Lidar Pipeline Inspection System) is tuned to a Mid IR wavelength (3300 nm) providing 100X more sensitivity than all competingtechnology. Competing Technology operates in the near IR (1650 nm).

Here’s the science behind photonics, mid-IR tunable lasers, and methane absorption strength vs. wavelength in an excerpt from “Mid-IR Tunable Lasers Probe Hydrocarbon Molecules” by Lockheed Martin Aculight scientist Angus Henderson:

The strength of the fundamental absorptions in this so-called “C-H stretch” region can be orders of magnitude higher than overtone absorptions of the same molecules in the near-infrared (<2-μm wavelength). For example, the absorption of methane at 3.3 μm is more than 100 times stronger than in its overtone band at 1.65 μm (Figure 1). As a result, narrowband tunable lasers operating in the C-H stretch region can be used to perform highly sensitive detection of hydrocarbon species, as well as more fundamental investigations of molecular structure and chemical reactions.

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