PureWest’s Digital Sustainability Report Raises The Bar On ESG Transparency

Forbes

December 18, 2022

The question of ESG considerations and how to set and meet goals related to them has consumed a rising portion of planning and operating time and budgets within energy companies for at least 15 years now. No one expects the emphasis on these environmental, social and governance considerations to diminish as time goes on, especially as they relate to emissions of both methane and carbon dioxide.

In fact, with a rising percentage of energy consuming customers insisting upon ensuring any oil and natural gas they purchase and consume is certified as having been responsibly produced, the reasonable expectation is that the issue will continue to grow in importance. This reality has incentivized producing companies to not only strive to identify innovative means of improving their operations and internal processes, but also to become more transparent in the ways they report their results.

One operator that has taken the goal of reporting transparency to a new level is Wyoming’s largest natural gas producer, PureWest Energy, LLC. As part of the digital version of its 2022 Sustainability Report released on December 9, PureWest includes an interactive tool that allows readers to view well pads, emissions monitoring technology, groundwater sampling, and other relevant aspects of its operations.