Energy Magazine Category: SMC Profile

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Ultimarii Ltd. is a Canadian-built, AI-enabled regulatory intelligence platform serving government and highly regulated industries, including energy, utilities, mining, and infrastructure. We transform complex, document-heavy regulatory processes into structured, auditable workflows that improve speed, consistency, and decision quality using advanced AI and curated regulatory data. Our platform is purpose-built for government environments, with Canadian data residency, role-based access controls, audit logging, and alignment with federal security and AI governance standards.

Where is your company located?

Ultimarii is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, at the heart of Canada’s energy sector. Founded by professionals with deep roots in Alberta’s legal and regulatory landscape, Ultimarii serves clients across the energy, utility, mining, and legal industries throughout Canada and beyond. The company’s team spans software development, machine learning, data science, and regulatory expertise — all working together to fast-track compliance and reduce bureaucratic friction for professionals in highly regulated industries.

How many employees do you have?

Ultimarii is a lean and growing team of approximately 30 professionals, bringing together legal professionals, regulatory specialists, software engineers, ML scientists and data specialists. All united by a shared mission to reduce friction in highly regulated industries to ensure we can build Canada faster.

What are the company’s priority over the next five years?

Expand our reach across North America, serving project development around the globe. We are building the world’s largest and most robust regulatory reference dataset and the largest suite of regulatory specific AI agents to support the critical workflows energy companies manage every day.

What opportunities and challenges does your company face?

Ultimarii’s greatest opportunity is helping Canada’s energy sector move faster at a moment when the world needs dependable Canadian energy, resilient infrastructure, and clearer pathways to project development. One challenge is that large enterprises adopt AI carefully. Security, change management, trust, and workflow integration matter as much as the technology itself. Our focus is on turning that adoption challenge into an advantage by delivering practical, enterprise-ready AI that fits how regulated energy teams actually work.

In your opinion, what will be the role of natural gas in the next 50 years?

Natural gas will increasingly be judged not just by its emissions profile, but by the role it plays in a stable and responsible energy system. Over the next 50 years, we see evidence that it will support reliability as power demand rises, enable industrial activity that cannot easily be electrified, and provide energy security to allies through LNG. The sector’s challenge and opportunity will be proving that gas infrastructure can be developed faster to meet the growing demand.

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About your company

The Viega story began in Germany in 1899 when Franz-Anselm Viegener invented a groundbreaking brass beer tap. By 1901, the company expanded into home plumbing products and quickly became a leader in pipe pressing technology, with a growing international presence. The launch of Viega North America in 1999 marked a new chapter, widening the brand’s reach and product offerings. Today, after more than 125 years of innovation in building technology, Viega produces more than 17,000 products and stands as a global market leader in metal piping systems, including PureFlow®, ProPress®, MegaPress® and MegaPressG®, for industrial, commercial and residential uses.

Where is your company located?

Viega North America is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, just outside Denver. The company’s manufacturing plants operate in Kansas and Ohio, while distribution centers are in Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Ohio. Viega also offers specialized training at seminar centers in Colorado, New Hampshire and Ohio and their Viega Experience Center in New York City provides ongoing education through both in-person sessions and online workshops.

How many employees do you have?

As the number of Viega products continues to grow, Viega continues to expand its extensively trained, highly specialized workforce. Viega North America currently employs more than 1,200 professionals; all committed to creating the best fitting products possible. Globally, Viega has a workforce of 5,500 professionals.

What is the company’s priority over the next five years?

Viega North America is committed to supporting the trades with products made in North America. By keeping production domestic, we can ensure quality standards are met and strengthen our connection to local communities and economies. A recent example of this commitment is our new state-of-the-art manufacturing, distribution and training facility in Mantua, Ohio. The 244,000-square-foot facility represents a $178 million investment and will create approximately 68 new jobs in the first two years. It will produce Viega press technology systems and serve as a key distribution hub and training center for customers across the eastern United States and Canada.

What opportunities and challenges does your company face?

As Viega North America continues to expand its product offerings and domestic manufacturing capabilities, we see tremendous opportunities in advancing sustainable building technologies and meeting the evolving demands of the energy sector. The shift toward high-efficiency systems and the growing focus on water conservation and safety present new areas for innovation and growth. At the same time, we face challenges related to supply chain resilience, workforce development in the skilled trades and adapting to rapidly changing regulations and market conditions.

In your opinion, what will be the role of natural gas in the next 50 years?

We believe that natural gas will continue to provide reliable, flexible energy for buildings and many industrial processes in the near-to-medium term. Our field experience and product lines (for example, MegaPressG and ProPressG) are built around safe, efficient delivery and installation of gas infrastructure. We expect the gas network to become more multi-fuel and lower-carbon. Viega’s systems are already specified for gas applications and some of our product documentation highlights compatibility with hydrogen and other special media, positioning our press-connection approach as a practical way to adapt existing infrastructure. Viega is committed to supporting customers through this transition while reducing our own footprint. We have set a goal to make our production and all facilities climate-neutral by 2035 and continue to pursue product and process improvements that lower life-cycle emissions. That commitment informs how we design systems for today’s gas needs while enabling tomorrow’s reduced-carbon pathways.

Where is your company located? 

We are based in Weston, Massachusetts, with operational anaerobic co-digestion facilities in Massachusetts and Vermont, and facilities currently under construction in Wisconsin and Virginia.

How many employees do you have? 

We currently have approximately 200 employees and are continuing to grow!

What is the company’s priority over the next five years?

We’re expanding our anaerobic digesters to major US markets, aiming for 50 operational facilities within five years. Partnering with food and beverage manufacturers, we recycle organic waste and cow manure in our on-farm digesters, producing biogas, CO2, and valuable agricultural byproducts. This circular process reduces greenhouse gas emissions, supports regenerative agriculture, and generates renewable natural gas for decarbonizing various industries. Over the next five years, we’ll continue to grow our footprint, offering zero waste solutions to the food and beverage industry while generating renewable energy.

What opportunities and challenges does your company face? 

We are the largest Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) producer in the organics space with 12.5 BCF in development across the country, with the opportunity to bring carbon negative renewable energy to a broader audience while helping the food and beverage industry decarbonize and helping to sustain small family farms via an annual lease payment, low-carbon fertilizer, and animal bedding. RNG can be used in multiple segments, creating opportunities for reducing emissions within the gas-to-product, voluntary, utility, and transportation markets, particularly in industries like maritime and international shipping. Regulations and new markets can be a challenge for RNG, and some do not yet have pathways for our unique co-digested RNG, compared to manure or landfill RNG supply sources.

In your opinion, what will be the role of natural gas in the next 50 years? 

Natural gas will act as an important transition fuel for grid stability and industrial processes as renewables scale, with RNG emerging as the decarbonization pathway, especially in hard-to-electrify sectors such as shipping or heavy transport. US RNG production, projected to grow tenfold by 2050, will increasingly replace fossil gas with a unique ability, unlike power, to leverage existing natural gas infrastructure, such as Liquefied Natural Gas terminals and pipelines. By 2050, there will be a critical dependence on renewables like RNG as conventional gas declines under climate mandates.

Supplier, Manufacturer and Contractor Profile

Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps energy and water utilities develop the infrastructure needed to provide communities with safe and reliable resources. We provide gas utilities with a broad assortment of meters and sensors, a secure communications network for remote monitoring and control of gas flow, and software solutions for analyzing and acting on the data they capture. In doing so, we enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness.

Where is your company located?

Sensus is a brand of Xylem Inc., which is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

How many employees do you have?

Xylem has 17,000+ employees across the globe.

What is the company’s priority over the next five years?

Over the next five years, our focus is on evolving with the gas industry to meet our customers’ changing needs, especially regarding renewable fuel types. As gas utilities explore hydrogen, RNG and other fuels, we intend to offer the education, products and migration plans they need for successful implementation. We are excited about the opportunity to provide our customers with solutions and actionable data to achieve their carbon emissions goals.

“Over the next five years, our focus is on evolving with the gas industry to meet our customers’ changing needs, especially regarding renewable fuel types.”

What opportunities and challenges does your company face?

Like many industries over the past few years, we have faced ongoing supply chain challenges. However, we continue to address them as they arise and keep our customers informed of our lead times and product availability. These challenges have encouraged us to adopt a culture of agility and process improvement to mitigate risks as they are uncovered, and course-correct quickly when needed. As the procurement of electronic components becomes more and more challenging, we have prioritized the continued support of our mechanical product lines to ensure that our customers have access to the products their pipelines depend on.

In your opinion, what will be the role of natural gas in the next 50 years?

We are firm believers in the importance of natural gas today and in the future as a sustainable source of energy, especially in the northern half of the world where renewables are less dependable and consistent. As certain regions turn to alternative sources of energy, it’s important to inform consumers about production methods of other forms of energy and how critical natural gas supply will be to support energy generation demand in the future. Although change is certain, we are confident that natural gas will continue to be a part of the world’s energy equation in the future.

JANA’s probabilistic, quantitative approach to risk modeling is industry-leading. Over the past 20+ years, we’ve amassed extensive knowledge about pipelines, building technical expertise in three key domains: Data, Integrity Management, and Quantitative Risk. Our risk models in each of these domains are proven in action and hardened in battle. We’ve backed our probabilistic J-DIMP™ and J-TIMP™ Risk Models with robust software solutions. This combination of risk modeling and software allows our clients to maximize their data and facilitate the comparison of true risk across asset classes — based on facts they can trust and defend.

Where is your company located?

JANA is proud to call Aurora, Ontario — just north of the Greater Toronto Area — home since our founding in 1999!

How many employees do you have?

As an Authorized Professional Engineering Firm (PEO) in Ontario, JANA has a dedicated, driven and passionate team of more than 80 engineers, project managers, data analysts, software developers, product managers and implementation specialists.

What is the company’s priority over the next five years?

Better Pipelines for a Better World: JANA was founded with this mission and we live it every day. This mission defines us, directs us and drives us. We live it by investing deeply in developing the absolute best technology, empowering our clients to genuinely manage their assets in a risk-informed manner and profoundly mitigate the inherent risks of operating pipelines. JANA’s pursuit of our mission is also reflected in our commitment to remaining at the forefront of probabilistic risk modeling. We are actively involved in the gas industry, contributing to growth and change while staying current on regulations.

What opportunities and challenges does your company face?

The world of probabilistic risk is still “new.” The most common industry challenge is often choosing an approach appropriate to the nature of the assets and true to the objectives of Integrity Management. JANA sees the opportunities a quantitative probabilistic approach can provide gas operators. These risk models take advantage of data availability to provide predictive forecasts of asset risk. Software can also be employed to turn model outputs into actionable information, giving integrity engineers the tools and visualizations needed to build optimal plans, justify mitigations and understand risk across an entire asset base. “New” is both an opportunity and a challenge!

In your opinion, what will be the role of natural gas in the next 50 years?

Pipelines are at the heart of civilization; they deliver us the fluid of life (water), energy (natural gas), handle our wastes and enable many of our production processes. For the most part they go unseen, an invisible network under our feet. At JANA, we believe that the natural gas industry’s focus on innovation, commitment to environmental stewardship and dedication to the future of energy is truly energizing the progress of society. And we don’t see that changing! As new pipelines are installed and our existing pipeline assets age, JANA will continue to partner with pipeline operators in helping them maintain the safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness of these valuable energy assets.

“[W]e believe that the natural gas industry’s focus on innovation, commitment to environmental stewardship and dedication to the future of energy is truly energizing the progress of society. ”

Supplier, Manufacturer and Contractor Profile 

Cameron Instruments Inc. is a dedicated Canadian supplier located in Guelph, ON. We have been in business for over 30 years during which time we have grown from a company of two to over 10 employees. Our focus is supplying the Canadian natural gas distribution market with quality instrumentation for calibration, measurement and test. This includes providing high accuracy pressure and gas quality measurement standards, used in meter shops, custody transfer, hydrostatic pipeline construction and biogas green energy.

Cameron’s priorities over the next five years include supporting the Canadian Gas industry through innovative products. We are the national supplier and service center for Sewerin Gas Leak Detectors and analyzers, an Ametek distributor for Crystal Engineering pressure calibrators and Jofra Dryblock temperature calibrators, and a Factory representative for Fluke high accuracy and Gas Flow Standards. Recently we have expanded our product line to include; Aeroqual Gas and Ozone detection, and CST-Canada Sensor Technology pressure and level transmitters. In addition, we strive to provide timely servicing and support of instrumentation through our ISO17025 accredited laboratory for pressure.

In an industry that is well regulated, the opportunity and challenge is to meet the expectation for improvements in measurement. To meet those requirements and integrate our capabilities with the Canadian market place, we will be seeking additional accreditation through Measurement Canada. We see opportunity for diversification of the natural gas supply throughout Canada into liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the growth of green initiatives associated with biogas. In order to support this diversification we are engaged as members with the Canadian Gas Association, the National Council for Standards and Laboratories, and the Canadian Biogas Association.

“We see opportunity for diversification of the natural gas supply throughout Canada into LNG and the growth of green initiatives associated with Biogas.”

Looking forward, we see steady growth and opportunity for the natural gas industry; due in part to an expanding population, and the IOT providing wireless and communication options for real time data. Natural gas has a significant role to play by incorporating new LNG/ renewable natural gas (RNG) initiatives into the energy grid and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If the natural gas industry can take advantage of these developments, then it’s in a good spot to provide reliable energy solutions for the next 50 years and beyond.