Oleksiy Golovchenko on the lessons learned from building a state of the art emissions inventory management system

"Emissions combine all of the activities a company has. It's the tailpipe of the company, but it entails all of the activities that company undertakes."

In this episode, I’m in conversation with Oleksiy Golovchenko who is a Senior specialist, EHS Data and Analytics with Ovintiv, a large North American oil and gas producer. Oleksiy has been part of a team delivering a real time emissions inventory management system at a highly granular level of detail across the full measure of the company. This is a hard problem to solve, and a lot of companies will want to simply buy such a solution. But Oleksiy discusses why there are no out of the box solutions in this field, that it requires a committed team and organization, and coding skills (not computer scientists) are needed.

"There's no such thing as an out of the box Emission Inventory Management System. And the reason for that is that it needs to be configured to company individual requirements, business processes that you have."

Oleksiy Golovchenko is a Senior specialist, Environment Health & Safety Data and Analytics with Ovintiv. He began his career working in environmental labs where he performed a range of chemical analyses for various media, including air, water, and soil. From there, he joined NOVA Chemicals, working variously in Catalysts, Polymers, and  Petrochemicals, earning co-authorship on several patents. At Ovintiv, he deploys automation to minimize regulatory compliance, sustainability, ESG and safety risks, turning data into actionable insights and creating disruptive innovation. 

Oleksiy holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Simon Fraser University (SFU), a Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development (SEDV) from the University of Calgary (U of C), and an MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute.

"Excel doesn't have the capabilities to handle the sheer amount of data, let alone have the functionality to do things you need to do. And let alone think about doing it all in real time, from a variety of data sources."

USEFUL LINKS

• LinkedIn profiles (personal, business): 

• Personal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleksiygolovchenko/

• Business: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ovintiv/ 

• Website:

• https://www.ovintiv.com/https://www.ovintiv.com/https://www.ovintiv.com/