Although natural gas production rose by 40 percent from 2015 to 2022, methane emissions simultaneously fell by 37 percent, according to an analysis by environmental groups Ceres and the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) using Environmental Protection Agency data. The report also states that overall greenhouse gas emissions fell by 14 percent while methane and
Read More...The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), which counts the world’s largest oil and gas companies among its membership, plans to extend its pioneering methane monitoring campaign to seven or eight new countries, according to reporting in the Financial Times Monday morning. This announcement is particularly noteworthy as according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA)
Read More...Amidst attacks on U.S. energy production and continued global instability, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry managed to not only meet but exceed expectations in 2023. The industry broke production records and supplied critical energy resources at home and abroad, all while reducing methane emissions. Oil and Gas Industry Continues to Innovate Amid Record
Read More...Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials will hold a hearing titled “America Leads the Way: Our History as the Global Leader at Reducing Emissions.” It’s an opportune time to be discussing American leadership in greenhouse gas emissions reduction. On Thursday, diplomats, state leaders, advocates, activists, the private sector,
Read More...Serving as a guide for companies and policymakers who aim to reduce methane emissions throughout the energy supply chain, API’s newly released Methane Action Plan (“MAP”) creates a blueprint that builds on the industry’s existing actions to reduce emissions through programs like the Environmental Partnership. The plan outlines the need for effective methane regulation that
Read More...Natural gas trade associations recently called out the Biden administration for their overreaching and unrealistic proposed rule on gas pipeline leak detection and repair that would place an undue burden on operators who are already committed to reducing emissions. Reminder: Following the rules announcement in May, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) hosted
Read More...Bidenistas Plan to Destroy Oil and Gas Industry As API Dozes Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Bidenistas controlling the movements of our puppet President aim to obliterate the oil and gas industry as the API tries making nice to its wannabe killers.] The Bidenistas on Wednesday
Read More...Amidst a historically busy methane regulatory agenda, the White House will hold its first-ever methane summit on July 26. The few details available about the summit state that the event will convene “state, local and federal leaders” to spotlight how governments are detecting and responding to methane emissions. Notably, the American oil and natural gas
Read More...Claims that the leakage rate of natural gas wells and infrastructure make the resource worse for the environment than coal are once again circulating – and using the same debunked methodology as previous research by Food and Water Watch board member and Cornell professor Robert Howarth. In the latest study, RMI is moving the needle
Read More...Diversified inspected all of its Appalachian wells for leaks last year, and it’s planning to expand its efforts to include its wells in the South. The post Diversified regularly inspects its wells to reduce emissions appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. This post appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter.
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – June 24, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: global corporatism is about to be unleashed, the Irish want to kill cows to
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Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 31, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Methane emissions continue to decrease in the United States, according to data in the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2023 draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHGI). Even as the industry sets production records, methane emissions from petroleum and natural gas systems have continued their downward trend –nearly 9 percent since 2005 and 4
Read More...Today, Joseph Goffman, the current principal deputy assistant administrator for the U.S. EPA Office of Air and Radiation, will be the subject of a nomination hearing to be the assistant EPA Administrator for the office of air and radiation. This hearing comes after Goffman’s nomination was deadlocked before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
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