Husky Energy Expands GHG Emissions Reporting to Meet Growing Compliance and Sustainability Requirements

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Husky Energy, one of Canada’s largest energy companies, was faced with the challenge of expanding its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting to meet growing compliance and sustainability requirements. In 2010, the government of British Columbia issued its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act Reporting Regulation, which required companies to provide much more granular data. The new rules meant that Husky’s reporting obligations grew from 12 facilities with 14 pieces of equipment to over 136 facilities with 858 pieces of equipment. The company now needed to report on all well-level drilling emissions as well as tracking and reporting emissions down to the equipment level. This presented a significant challenge in terms of data management and reporting.

Husky Energy Inc. is one of Canada’s largest energy companies, committed to managing business in a socially responsible manner, focused on sustainable development and environmental stewardship. To achieve this strategic goal, Husky’s managers constantly monitor, assess and report on the company’s progress with their Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS) – an enterprise-wide information hub built on Sphera opsInfo™ software, part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™. EPRS enables Husky to track and calculate environmental performance in areas such as production energy intensity and carbon intensity index with improved accuracy and increased frequency.

To meet these new challenges, Husky Energy expanded its Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS), an enterprise-wide information hub built on Sphera opsInfo™ software, part of the Sphera Environmental Performance Solution™. The EPRS enabled Husky to track and calculate environmental performance in areas such as production energy intensity and carbon intensity index with improved accuracy and increased frequency. Husky changed the way that the data was being both collected and viewed. Much of the data required for GHG reporting had to be gathered from the field and ground-level operations at multiple facilities. Husky launched a business process improvement project to capture that data more efficiently. Operators were made responsible to ensure their data was made available in the systems that interface directly with EPRS. This improved transparency and accountability for audits, and the time savings were dramatic – instead of waiting up to 30 days to receive data from remote locations, the information was already there so it only took a few minutes to generate a report.

• Enhanced enterprise-wide Environmental Performance Reporting System (EPRS)
• Expanded system – in only one year – from 12 to 136 facilities and 14 to 858 pieces of equipment to maintain compliance
• Proactively recommended an alternative data capture approach for GHG regulations and received government agency approval

• Expanded system from 12 to 136 facilities
• Expanded system from 14 to 858 pieces of equipment
• Reduced data waiting time from 30 days to minutes