Kayrros

Kayrros is a Paris-based satellite-derived environmental intelligence company founded in 2016 by Antoine Rostand (formerly McKinsey energy practice) and Abhishek Bali, delivering quantitative monitoring of industrial assets and emissions for commodity trading desks, energy hedge funds, regulators, and policy institutions — translating raw satellite data into financial-grade intelligence products.

The company's signature application is oil storage monitoring: Kayrros uses synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical satellite imagery to measure floating-roof crude oil storage tank levels across 100,000+ tanks globally by analyzing the geometric shadow cast by the floating roof plate inside each tank shell. The roof angle correlates directly with fill level, enabling daily inventory updates for tanks at OPEC+ facilities, US Gulf Coast terminals, Chinese strategic petroleum reserves, and Rotterdam/Fujairah hubs — with 1-3% accuracy and no field access required. Commodity trading firms use this data to front-run IEA/EIA oil inventory releases and detect demand signals before official government data is published.

Methane emissions attribution is Kayrros's second major vertical: using TROPOMI (ESA's Sentinel-5P) and high-resolution satellite spectrometers, the company identifies super-emitter events from oil and gas upstream operations — pipeline leaks, flaring malfunctions, separator dumps — and attributes them to specific facility operators. Kayrros published analysis demonstrating that actual Permian Basin methane emissions exceeded EPA estimates by approximately 60%, contributing to pressure for stricter U.S. methane regulation under the IRA's methane fee provisions.

Additional products include LNG terminal throughput tracking (thermal IR + AIS vessel detection), European gas storage fill monitoring during energy crises, crop burn detection for agricultural commodity forecasting, and deforestation carbon flux for nature-based solution integrity verification. Clients include Goldman Sachs commodity desk, Vitol, Gunvor, the International Energy Agency, and European Commission energy policy directorate. Competitors include Ursa Space Systems (US oil storage), RS Metrics, and SpaceKnow (satellite analytics). Kayrros's edge is its financial-analyst-facing product design versus raw satellite data vendors.