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GML for Midstream

Gain system-wide visibility into methane emissions with accurate, audit-ready data.

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For midstream operators, methane emissions carry both regulatory and operational risks. Operators must cut emissions quickly while managing complex pipeline networks, dispersed facilities, and shifting regulations. Traditional LDAR programs—executed with truck rolls, handheld sensors, and fixed monitors—often struggle to adequately scan long linear assets across difficult terrain. 

Bridger’s Gas Mapping LiDAR (GML) gives midstream operators the sensitivity, coverage, and defensible reporting needed to reduce emissions, maintain pipeline integrity, and simplify compliance. With customizable detection thresholds ranging from 1–15 kg/hr with a 90% probability of detection (PoD) and localization to within approximately 2 meters, GML delivers actionable data across hundreds of miles of pipeline per day, without the limitations of ground-based methods.

Why Midstream Operators Rely on GML

  • EHS Leaders: Identify and quantify leaks across entire pipeline systems

  • Regulatory Teams: Access EPA and PHMSA-ready, audit-defensible data

  • Operations Executives: Reduce truck rolls and lower remediation costs with network-wide visibility

  • ESG Leaders: Report measurable methane reductions with confidence

  • C-Suite: Demonstrate ROI by linking methane management to operational efficiency and risk reduction

By combining speed with precision, GML provides midstream operators with quantitative leak rates to prioritize repairs, streamline compliance, and protect margins.

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How GML Works in Midstream

Bridger’s GML sensors are designed for continuous spatial coverage of both above and below-ground infrastructure, scanning hundreds of miles of pipeline per day with minimal downtime and best-in-class accuracy and sensitivity. 

GML scans produce high quality methane plume imagery, showing exactly what’s leaking, where it’s leaking, and quantified emission rates show how much is being lost.

Key performance metrics:

  • Sensitivity: Flexible detection sensitivity options from 1–15 kg/hr all with a 90% PoD, adjusted to meet your compliance or ROI goals
  • Localization: Pinpoints leaks within ~2 meters so crews can go straight to the source
  • Coverage: Hundreds of miles of gas pipeline per day in nearly any condition
  • Reporting: Time-stamped, geo-registered and quantified emissions data, high-resolution plume imagery maps and up-to-date aerial photography
  • Audit ready: Every dataset includes logged detection sensitivity and time-stamped, geo-registered coverage maps for defensible reporting

 

Proven Benefits for Transmission

Operational efficiency

System-wide visibility reduces windshield time and simplifies repair prioritization

Compliance assurance

Regulatory-ready data trusted for PHMSA and EPA reporting

Risk reduction

Detect and eliminate the feedstock of smaller and mid-sized leaks that can eventually become super-emitters

Accelerate emissions reduction

Comprehensive insights enable informed decision making

Trusted by Industry Leaders

GML is trusted by many of the largest pipeline operators in North America and has been recognized by regulators as a credible, advanced methane detection technology. Peer-reviewed studies continue to validate its effectiveness and technology capabilities.

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Let’s find out how GML can support your methane management goals.