Environment
The Texas Methane and Flaring Coalition has released the first edition of the report, which it says will help lawmakers, media, and the general public understand the latest developments around methane and emissions.
The world's largest plant that sucks carbon dioxide directly from the air and deposits it underground is due to start operating on 15 September, the company behind the nascent green technology said.
Amid investor pressure, ExxonMobil taps its Poker Lake facility in New Mexico as the company’s first for natural-gas certification.
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Ida’s 150-mph winds wreaked havoc on offshore oil production platforms and onshore oil and gas processing plants. As of 6 September, about 88% of the region’s offshore oil production remains shut and more than 100 platforms remain unoccupied after the storm made landfall on 29 August. -
Purchasing carbon offsets is a widespread means of attempting to meet carbon-reduction and net-zero emissions goals across many industries. Also widespread is the increasing scrutiny of the practice. How “real” are the offsets? How are they quantified and verified, and by whom?
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The company’s 2021 Energy Transition Outlook says the Earth likely will miss the 2°C goal of the Paris Agreement and the window to get back on track is closing rapidly.
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Using a large-sample statistical approach based on publicly available data, the authors of a recent study investigated the potential impact of unconventional oil and gas development on surface water quality.
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The energy transition was present but not at center stage at recent earnings calls as majors celebrated their improving financial performance.
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With the purchase of AEP, China’s largest clean energy group will extend its renewable energy business into Middle East and North African markets.
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The company announced the inauguration of the 300-MW first stage of the 900-MW Shuaa Energy 3 PSC, which is the fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. Once fully operational, the park will be the largest single-site solar park in the world based on an independent power producer model, with a planned production capacity of 5,000 MW.
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A federal judge threw out Trump administration approvals for a large planned oil project on Alaska’s North Slope, saying the federal review was flawed and didn’t include mitigation measures for polar bears.
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A subsidiary-owned pipeline near Marmon, North Dakota, spilled more than 700,000 bbl of produced water over a period of almost 5 months in 2014–2015.
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Scientists from around the world have declared definitively and in unison that global warming is real and that it has been unequivocally caused by human activity. The next move, they said, is up to the world’s leaders.
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