environment

The Center for Western Priorities’ annual Western Oil and Gas Spills Tracker report shows that Colorado’s oil and gas industry is trending in the wrong direction on drilling-related spills.

Several options exist for large-scale hydrogen underground storage: lined caverns, salt domes, saline aquifers, and depleted oil/gas reservoirs. In this paper, a commercial reservoir simulator was used to model cyclic injection/withdrawal from saline aquifers and depleted oil/gas reservoirs. The results revealed the need to contain the stored volume with an integrated…

Matador Production Company has agreed to pay $6.2 million in fines and mitigation measures related to 239 oil and gas well pads in New Mexico, while Permian Resources Operating agreed earlier to pay $610,000 and make improvements to its equipment to settle environmental violations.

Regulators told some injection well operators close to the epicenter of a magnitude 4.0 earthquake that they will have to shut down their operations indefinitely.

This case study highlights the effectiveness of unmanned aerial systems in enabling land-based operators to assess the relative seriousness of leaks efficiently by both localizing and quantifying their methane emission rates.

Lawmakers are considering a solution that would give abandoned wells a new, redemptive purpose: deep receptacles to trap carbon for millennia.

Recently published research suggests that carbon dioxide stored underground will stay there for millions of years.

Because diversity of aquatic animals is an indicator of safe and environmentally friendly operations, a pilot system has been launched that uses an underwater camera and artificial intelligence to observe aquatic animals around a platform.

The funding is for 33 research and development projects which will tackle the technical challenges of capturing CO2.

The company plans to launch a satellite to monitor and curb leaks and seeks tougher regulations to "level the playing field."