Environment
This guest editorial examines how the most commonly used and cited methane emissions metric can create a misleading picture of upstream gas-handling performance for both the public and industry professionals.
Spain has granted permits covering a swath of the mountain range to Mantle8 for natural hydrogen and helium exploration a month after France granted the company similar permits.
The US federal government is working to stymie offshore wind power, but proponents aren’t going quietly. Armed with data, they are taking on a sea of misinformation and hostility to defend the burgeoning resource in the US, while the rest of the world moves ahead briskly.
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A new type of skid-mounted production facility was deployed on a pad in Weld County, Colorado, and demonstrated elimination of emissions, improved operational efficiency, and an increased crude yield of 11.3%. -
The funding is aimed at helping connect sources of carbon dioxide to locations for geologic storage and conversion through multiple transport modes.
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The research could improve climate models and inform carbon sequestration.
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Ipieca, together with the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, released the guide to help operators select and deploy methane detection technologies.
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Large methane emissions occur from a wide variety of oil and gas industry sites with no discernable patterns, thus requiring methods to monitor for these releases throughout the production chain. This paper describes a continuous monitoring system based on the Internet of Things using methane concentration sensors permanently deployed at facilities and connected to a…
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The government is offering its first major funding for the unexplored energy source.
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The administration will cancel oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and set aside more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve.
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Government and industry leaders support the oil and gas industry's role in the energy transition.
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The lease auction aims to advance the president’s commitment to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind energy by 2030.
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The two main value drivers of the project were to minimize health, safety, and environmental effects and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in line with the company’s goal of moving toward net zero by 2050 and to maximize hydrocarbon recovery.
