Environment
The Absheron gas field expansion will supply additional natural gas to Azerbaijan’s domestic market and support its export commitments to Turkey, allowing Baku to stay focused on meeting its gas export obligations to Europe.
With millions of wells having been drilled in the US since the beginning of the oil age, the land is pocked with old, unused wellbores. For most, repurposing is a pipe dream. Plugging is the best option.
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.
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The deal with Manulife gives Oxy unit 1PointFive access to 27,000 acres of subsurface pore space for carbon sequestration. -
The Texas Railroad Commission has approved its plan for fiscal year 2023, outlining priorities and highlighting enforcement efforts.
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The House Science Committee calls for tougher surveillance amid evidence of super-emitters and undetected leaks in the vast Permian Basin.
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About 90 tonnes of methane an hour were released from the Raspadskaya coal mine in January, data from the GHGSat global satellite shows.
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Chevron, Talos, and Carbonvert have finished the documentation and closed the joint venture for the carbon capture and storage project on the Gulf of Mexico coast.
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The suite of tools includes a digital platform for sharing emissions data, an agreed set of definitions that nails down what different terms mean, a single set of metadata definitions, and an API through which users can access data. When used together, these tools provide an integrated perspective on what emissions are coming from where.
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A trio of new satellites that use infrared sensor technology are now flying around the Earth at a speed faster than 4 miles per second.
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Trafigura, a group of physical commodity trading companies, and Palantir Technologies announced their intent to develop a platform to calculate carbon intensity, combining the efforts of trading and digital technology to account for Scope 3 emissions. The aim is to increase transparency of life-cycle emissions and to provide benchmarking against other market participa…
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This study provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of renewable-energy resources, energy-transition efforts, and the future of conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources in California.
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The rule would require publicly traded companies to report not only their greenhouse-gas emissions but also their approach to managing climate change, likely setting up a long legal fight.
