The New Frontier of Carbon Management
As nations and industries accelerate toward net-zero goals, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) has become one of the most critical technologies for decarbonizing the global energy landscape. Yet, as the infrastructure for capturing, - transporting, and storing CO₂ expands, a new challenge emerges how to ensure the accuracy, traceability, and transparency of every ton of CO₂ handled.
Sigmafine empowers the fast-growing CCUS industry to ensure trusted CO₂ data across every stage — from capture and compression to transport and storage to help build data integrity, operational efficiency, and long-term sustainability value.
The Hidden Challenge: Data Integrity in CCUS
CCUS operations are not just about pipelines and injection wells. They are complex digital ecosystems involving hundreds of data sources - from process sensors and flow meters to simulation environments and business systems.
Without robust validation, this data can become fragmented, inconsistent, and ultimately unreliable for Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) compliance.
Most operators struggle to reconcile mass and energy balances across capture plants, compression systems, and storage reservoirs. This can lead to uncertainty in emissions reporting - a serious risk in today’s regulation-driven markets.
Sigmafine: Turning Raw Process Data into Trusted Carbon Intelligence
Sigmafine transforms CCUS data management through its model-based data reconciliation and validation framework.
Here’s how it bridges the integrity gap:
- Mass and Energy Balancing: Ensures closure across capture, transport, and storage stages.
- Data Reconciliation: Corrects measurement inconsistencies, delivering a consistent, MRV-ready dataset.
- Auditability & Transparency: Creates a fully traceable digital trail of CO₂ flows - a vital requirement for regulators and investors.
- System Integration: Connects seamlessly with process historians, ERP systems, and simulation tools - turning silos into a single source of truth.
Sigmafine’s proven success in Energy sector gives it a unique advantage in CCUS. It already underpins production accounting, performance monitoring, and sustainability initiatives across major energy players.
From Measurement to Meaning: Why It Matters
By embedding Sigmafine into CCUS infrastructure, operators can:
- Reduce data uncertainty through reconciliation-driven validation.
- Achieve MRV compliance with verifiable, auditable datasets.
- Gain real-time insights into process performance, losses, and CO₂ utilization efficiency.
- Build stakeholder trust through transparent reporting and consistent KPIs.
The Future: Data Quality as the New Carbon Currency
In a world where carbon will soon be priced, traded, and taxed like any other commodity, data quality becomes the new currency of trust.
Sigmafine enables CCUS operators to turn CO₂ data into digital assets - measurable, auditable, and valuable.
As the energy transition accelerates worldwide, Sigmafine stands out as the digital backbone for carbon accountability. The success of CCUS doesn’t depend solely on technology in the field - it depends on the integrity of the data behind it.
Sigmafine by Pimsoft provides that integrity, ensuring every molecule of CO₂ is measured, reconciled, and trusted.
In the race to net zero, that trust could make all the difference.
Trusting Data for Action
In process and manufacturing, information systems should be implemented with a system of checks and balances to maximize the quality of data and the economic potential of data. Creating an environment where data can be trusted is not an afterthought. Data quality, similar to product quality, needs to be built into our business and data management activities so that we can trust data for action at all times.
Transforming Data into Digital Assets
Being digital refers to data and information stored digitally. Being an asset refers to having control of the data and information to produce positive economic value. Being a digital asset consequently refers to data & information we own and control and from which we can generate sustainable and tangible benefits. This has been the job of Sigmafine and its users for almost three (3) decades now.