APPEC 2023: Trafigura, Palantir Unveil Emissions Platform for Energy Sector -- OPIS

Global commodities trader Trafigura and U.S. data analytics company Palantir Technologies have unveiled a platform to calculate supply-chain emissions of the energy sector.

The Agora for Energy platform was launched Wednesday at the annual Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore.

The companies said in a news release that the platform will enable users to integrate primary data and industry emissions data to understand end-to-end commodity supply chain carbon emissions.

It will also help the evaluation of alternative supply chain pathways by modeling the commercial impacts of carbon pricing mechanisms on supply chain choices, they added.

First users include supermajor BP plc and Colombian oil giant Ecopetrol.

"We believe that carbon intensity as a commodity specification can enable greater visibility of low carbon alternatives," Ben Luckock, co-head of oil trading at Trafigura, said in the release.

The platform was first created for the metals industry. Trafigura and Palantir are now exploring ways of standardizing carbon intensity reporting and developing new methodologies, they said.

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--Reporting by Abdul Latheef, [e-mail]; Editing by Michael Kelly, [e-mail]

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September 06, 2023 12:34 ET (16:34 GMT)

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