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Intent of the presentation would be to outline a possible forward thinking approach for materials engineers and process design teams to utilize ESG metrics in the selection of materials for process equipment as a reportable metric within FEED packages, Materials of Construction changes, and/or bidding out to contractors.  

One of the biggest challenges is that we currently have info on physical material properties (stress, temp limits, chemical compatibility) but not an accompanying database for ESG. 

The future may include CO2 and other trackable ESG metrics attached to the Material Test reports, GMNs, or as part of bid packages.

The big question is how do you accumulate the data and report it. The simple answer is it's a mass balance problem; something we are really good at doing! It just needs to be applied to the supply chain. Possible avenues would be ISO, ASTM, SPE specs and/or digital blockchain tracking systems compatible with accounting software (e.g. Greentoken).