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Breaking Ground in Offshore Methane Detection

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Finding methane plumes in the vast ocean using satellite innovation

In July 2025, we ran a focused four week Research and Development (R&D) sprint to test how open-access satellite imagery could be used to detect methane emissions from offshore oil and gas infrastructure, which is a notoriously hard-to-detect, under-monitored source of climate pollution. This post shares what we set out to do, what we built, what we learned, and where we plan to go next.

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Expanding the Database of Vessels Engaged in Offshore Oil and Gas Production

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Mapping the global fleet of floating oil and gas vessels known as FxOs may help us better understand the overall impact of these oftentimes overlooked structures.

From Homer’s “wine-dark sea” to Carson’s “hidden mysteries far greater than any we have solved,” the world’s oceans have served as a source of wonder, inspiration, and sustenance for humanity for millennia.

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Cerulean is Now Live

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SkyTruth announces the launch of Cerulean, a new technology platform to detect ocean polluters.

Recently at COP 28, we launched the beta version of Cerulean, SkyTruth’s long-awaited global monitoring system for ocean oil pollution and its possible sources. Cerulean is the first free, publicly available tool that maps and monitors ocean industrial pollution events and attributes them to specific actors using machine learning, cloud computing, and satellite imagery.

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SkyTruth Alerts 2023: New Incident Types and Enhanced Features

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As the world continues to grapple with environmental challenges, tools like SkyTruth Alerts have become invaluable for those who are passionate about tracking and responding to environmental incidents.

In 2023, SkyTruth introduced changes that expand the platform’s capabilities and provide additional monitoring opportunities. In this blog post, we’ll explore three new incident types added to SkyTruth Alerts – California Hazardous Materials Spills, Texas Oil and Gas Drilling Permits, and U.K. Oil and Gas Spills at Sea.

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SkyTruth Supports Associated Press Reporting on FPSOs

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SkyTruth is working to create the world’s first publicly accessible dataset of FSOs and FPSOs, to shed light on their behavior and monitor them for pollution events.

Over the last 19 months, SkyTruth has been working with investigative reporters from the Associated Press on a story that highlights the risks posed by aging vessels which are linked to offshore oil production.

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