CanERIC Benefits

Development of technologies that can be sold locally and internationally (jobs).
Deployment of technologies to reduce methane emissions and reduce red tape in monitoring emissions.
Reduction in costs to producers and incremental methane sales (higher royalties for the Provinces).
The reduction in costs for avoiding methane releases can be spent on other projects within the industry leading to industry jobs.

Collaboration with others who are working to reduce methane emissions – forum for discussion of ideas.
Ability to provide input to the primary focus of the program – The current focus is for solutions to the challenges of tank vents, pneumatics and surface casing vents. Additional challenges are investigated at member discretion.
Individual companies save time, energy, and resources through CanERIC.
Benefit through tests by others and test technologies of interest to individual companies.
Funding for tests.

Collaboration with others who are working to reduce methane emissions – forum for discussion of ideas.
Understand the needs of the industry; work collaboratively with industry, and have access to industry personnel and sites for testing.
Introduction to other researchers for ground-truthing ideas and speeding the discovery and testing of new ideas.
Funding for students and equipment.
Opportunity to supply testing services to CanERIC.

Forum to access many producers at one place to have your technology understood, and receive feedback.
If your technology is of interest to the members, they may propose a test of your equipment.
The data of the results are maintained in confidence to the members, but the vendors are free to publish it if they wish.
Iterate on your design based on the results and get to market faster.
Access to funding, the producers and sites – both laboratory and field – for testing.