Stop flare smoke before it counts
Smoke and flame-out detection in the first minute, with every alert logged against your permit.
See the flare watch
Smoke means gas isn't burning cleanly, and often product you could sell is going up the stack. Agnify turns the camera on your flare into a flare smoke detection camera, alerts the control room in the first minute and keeps the record of every clean hour. The same software runs on the cameras at your pads, racks and plants.
See interactive examples on real footage →Smoke and flame-out detection in the first minute, with every alert logged against your permit.
See the flare watchThief hatch monitoring at tanks and racks: open hatches, overfills and spills, caught as they happen.
See tanks and gas imagingRed zones, suspended loads and pressure tests, watched on every camera.
See safety rulesFire watch, confined-space attendants and PPE, on record.
See compliance checksIntrusion, theft and after-hours vehicles, caught on well pad and station cameras.
See site securityRack queues, truck dwell and gate logs across the site.
See the value chainThe camera you already have on the flare stack, watched continuously. The moment it starts to smoke, the control room gets the frame and the smoke timer starts against your permit.
Proposed workflow: each event keeps a frame every 15 seconds and the clip, so the log and the evidence match. Flare-specific detection and the smoke timer are validated in a pilot on your footage. Pilot monitors stay in place; Agnify adds the visual record.
From the fabrication shop to the loading rack, the cameras are already in place.
Flares, combustors, thief hatches and trucks run on the cameras most sites already have. Where the rules call for leak surveys every few months, Agnify adds continuous analytics to an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera.
A continuous camera counts toward survey duties only where the regulator approves it.
Every smoking minute is a process problem, and often product going up the stack. Catch it tomorrow and it's lost product and an exceedance.
Smoke often means heavier, richer gas or a surge from an upset upstream. See when and how often it happens, and find the unit sending it.
The limit is 5 minutes of smoke in 2 hours, or 1 in 15 on newer oil and gas flares. An alert in the first minute leaves time to adjust steam or air before it counts.
Neighbors film flares, and from 2027 satellite and aircraft reports feed EPA's super-emitter program. Your own record shows every clean hour too.
Billion cubic meters of gas flared worldwide in 2025, the third straight annual rise; about $54B of gas burned1
World Bank GGFR, 2026Smoke allowed in any 2 hours, in both the US refinery flare rule and the EU Methane Regulation5 3
40 CFR 63.670; Reg. (EU) 2024/1787EU inspection interval for regularly used flares, unless the authority approves remote or automated monitoring instead3
Reg. (EU) 2024/1787, Art. 17(3)Settlement with a US oil producer over tank and flare controls; flare monitoring was part of the fix2
US DOJ and EPA, 2024The rules ask if the flame is lit, if it's smoking and for how long. Where they accept video, the same camera that catches smoke early also replaces the manual visible emissions check.
40 CFR 63.670(h)(2)
A video camera with a time-and-date-stamped frame at least every 15 seconds and a live feed to the control room or another continuously manned location can replace the daily 5-minute Method 22 smoke observation. The HON, ethylene and MON rules adopt the option, with their own dates.5
Limit: no smoke for more than 5 minutes in any 2 hours
40 CFR 60.5417b(h) and 60.5417c(h)
On flares and combustors under OOOOb and OOOOc, video can replace the monthly Method 22 check: 720p or better at 15 fps, a live feed to a continuously manned location, a stamped frame at least every 15 seconds, a daily operator check and camera placement rules.5
Limit: no smoke for more than 1 minute in any 15
Reg. (EU) 2024/1787, Art. 17
For flares in scope with auto-igniters or continuous pilots, flame supervision must "constantly monitor" the main or pilot flame. Regularly used flares are inspected every 15 days, or by remote or automated monitoring the authority approves. Irregularities are remedied within 6 hours. Flare requirements apply since 5 February 2026.3
Limit: smoke over 5 minutes in 2 hours, recorded live
Every US and EU rule here creates a monitoring or record-keeping duty. Switch jurisdiction to see what each one asks.
| Rule | Applies to | What it asks | What Agnify records | Camera |
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A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Status as of September 2026; several US rules are under EPA reconsideration. "What Agnify records" describes proposed workflows validated in a pilot.
No rip and replace. Agnify connects to your existing cameras and the feeds you already record, on any brand.
Your IP cameras over RTSP, read on site. The recorder uploads over outbound HTTPS and buffers footage locally if the link drops; we confirm the site allowlist before installation.
Detection for fire, smoke, people and vehicles, plus plain-English rules for your site: zones, limits and durations. Flare-specific models are validated on your footage.
Alerts with the annotated frame go to the people who own the flare or the crew. Events are available through the API, with dashboards and reports for any shift, day or week.
Nothing to host. Results arrive within minutes, which suits flare records, daily reviews and reports.8
For pads and stations with thin links, on-site processing that sends only events and short clips is scoped per site.
Agnify is software. Cameras in classified areas use Ex or Class I Div 1/2 housings, or sit outside the zone looking in.
A free feasibility study on your own flare, pad or rack cameras, with an agreed end date and no commitment. We reply within one business day.
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A summary for orientation, not legal advice. Boxes, events and timelines are example data.