Industry Focus: Sensor advances allow pipeline leak detection to take to the skies

Sustainability and green initiatives have always been laudable objectives, with mission statements around the world confirming commitments to lower emissions and energy consumption, and increase recyclability, to name a few. However, increasingly over recent years, sustainability has also morphed into a business imperative, as investors, stakeholders and shareholders begin to steer their preferences towards companies that are not just paying lip service to the green agenda but are, instead, actively looking for ways to make their overall carbon footprint and environmental impact as low as possible. First, the focus was on coal; now, the oil industry thinks it might be next. Indeed, a recen