Baker Hughes Launches CCUS Digital Platform: CarbonEdge

Baker Hughes released CarbonEdge—a Cordant-powered, risk-based digital platform for CCUS operations that provides support, regulatory reporting, and operational risk management. Using an integrated dashboard, CarbonEdge delivers real-time data and alerts on CO₂ flow across CCUS infrastructure, including carbon capture and compression, pipeline transportation, and subsurface storage. Project connectivity allows customers to identify and manage risk, improve decision-making, increase operational efficiency, and simplify regulatory reporting.

CarbonEdge combines risk management and reporting technology for CO₂ measurement, monitoring, and verification (MMV), utilizing digital monitoring, engineering expertise, and domain knowledge across surface and subsurface planning and operations. The platform’s integration with Baker Hughes’ subsurface and autonomous modeling solutions offers storage site characterization workflows and MMV frameworks.

“CCUS technology solutions are essential for driving decarbonization of the energy and industrial sectors on our path to solving for climate change,” said Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman and CEO of Baker Hughes. “With the launch of CarbonEdge, we not only expand our portfolio of digital solutions to support new energies and empower our customers’ ability to mitigate risk while enhancing operational efficiency, but also take a step toward a future with more sustainable energy development. We look forward to working alongside Wabash Valley Resources to refine and evolve CarbonEdge, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of a changing industry.”

It also features quick deployment and scalability, ensuring connectivity, data synchronization, and interoperability across the components of digital ecosystems for Baker Hughes and customers. CarbonEdge, as part of Baker Hughes’ Climate Technology Solutions portfolio, joins the JewelSuite, Leucipa, and Cordant platforms.

Collaboration with Wabash Valley Resources

In July 2024, Baker Hughes and Wabash Valley Resources (WVR) signed a long-term agreement to supply technology services and solutions for ammonia fertilizer production, including compression systems, injection well construction, and testing and monitoring services for CO₂ geological sequestration. WVR will use CarbonEdge to measure, monitor, and verify volumes of CO₂ collected, transported, and stored underground—the companies will also work to further develop the CarbonEdge platform.

The ammonia fertilizer plant will serve the U.S. Corn Belt with a sustainable supply of domestic fertilizer produced through a zero-carbon-capable process, capturing 1.65 million tons of CO₂ per year. Facility construction and operation will support the local economy by employing hundreds of construction workers and operations personnel.

Baker Hughes New Products

In June, Baker Hughes released three new measurement sensor products for gas, flow, and moisture detection and monitoring: the XMTCpro, HygroPro XP, and T5MAX Transducer. Part of the company’s Panametrics business, these technologies maintain reliability, durability, greater accuracy for critical measurements, and long-term stability in harsh operating conditions. The sensors are designed to improve safety and productivity in hydrogen and other energy applications.

The XMTCPro can reliably and accurately monitor hydrogen and oxygen gas concentrations to ensure they reside below explosive limits. HygroPro XP is designed to protect customer products from the impact of trace moisture across oil and gas and industrial applications, quickly and accurately measuring moisture in gases and hydrocarbon liquids in a wide dew point range. The T5MAX Transducer has a signal strength four times stronger than the T5 Transducer, enabling significant improvement in ultrasonic flow meter performance for difficult hydrogen and gas flow measurement operations.