Emission management
EQT is benchmarking its way to basin-leading productivity and relying on partnerships and new technology to turn KPIs into operational reality.
This article from the SPE Sustainable Development Technical Section (SDTS) explores how the next phase of methane performance will be defined less by pledges and more by measurement, response, and verifiable results.
While Uzbekistan has seen a significant drop in flaring, methane leaks from deteriorating infrastructure continue to reveal themselves to satellites in space.
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GHGSat announced a new service for visualizing greenhouse-gas emissions. The interactive online resource will be freely available and will be formally launched during COP26 in November. -
In an effort to prove oil and gas developments are not as big a contributor to the Front Range’s diminishing air quality, Crestone Peak Resources announced it will install air quality monitors at all of its horizontal hydraulic fracturing sites throughout the state.
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Oil and gas industry expansions could add as much greenhouse gas pollution as the equivalent of 50 coal plants by 2025—with much of that increase coming from Texas and Louisiana—at a time when pressure to slow down global warming rises, a new report found.
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A Denver-based company has been installing data centers at shale drilling sites to take advantage of excess natural gas. Now, according to a new Bloomberg report, that company hopes to harness some of that gas to power data centers for Bitcoin mining.
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As The Environmental Partnership celebrates its second anniversary, the coalition of oil and natural gas companies has grown 150% to 70 members while continuing efforts to reduce emissions from natural gas production.
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According to a new report from the EIA, the volume of natural gas reported as flared reached its highest average annual level in 2018, 1.28 Bcf/D. With production soaring in the Bakken, Permian, and Eagle Ford plays, North Dakota and Texas accounted for more than 80% of that total.
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Saudi Aramco has announced that it is joining the World Bank initiative Zero Routine Flaring by 2030. Flaring by the company has remained at less than 1% of its total raw gas production in the first half of 2019.
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Methane emissions from California garbage dumps far surpass emissions from oil fields, according to a NASA survey.
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The volume of flared gas in the US unconventional sector is now 12% of the country’s total gas production. A pair of new reports say that Permian Basin operators account for much of the growth.
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New Mexico released data on excess greenhouse emissions from oil and gas operations to keep the public informed of the problem, as the state continues to develop stricter policies to regulate air pollution from the industry and other sources.
