GHGSat
GHGSat, a Montreal-based company with 15 satellites in orbit, specializes in detecting methane emissions with high precision, helping identify exact leak sources within industrial facilities. The company's technology enables faster response to emissions, making it valuable to both governments and private sector firms aiming to meet climate goals. In 2025, GHGSat formed methane monitoring partnerships with major oil and gas companies and the U.K. Space Agency.
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Governments and the private sector can make all the pledges they want about curbing their planet-warming emissions, but without a way to measure compliance, those promises are empty. Enter GHGSat, a Montreal-based company that has 15 satellites in orbit scanning the surface of the Earth for sources of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. There are other satellites that do what GHGSat is doing, but none as well. GHGSat can zoom in on a sprawling refinery or other facility and pinpoint the precise loading dock or pipe array where the emission originates, allowing technicians to quickly deploy solutions to shut down the leak.
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