Oil and gas producers rely on flaring to limit the venting of natural gas from their facilities. New research led by the University of Michigan shows that in the real Continue Reading
‘Many see the move as a power play to ratchet up political pressure on European supporters of Ukraine’. Russia is giving the term ‘power burn’ a whole new meaning by Continue Reading
Onshore gas flaring in the U.S. nosedived in the third quarter of 2021, falling to its lowest level since at least 2012, Rystad Energy stated. Flaring activity reached 380-390 million Continue Reading
Onshore gas flaring in the U.S. has plummeted, falling to its lowest level since at least 2012. The most significant contributors to this steep decline were the Bakken and Permian Continue Reading
A gas flare burns at dusk in the Permian Basin in Texas, U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, took a long-awaited step toward cutting planet-warming emissions on Tuesday with Continue Reading
Shale oil and gas producer APA Corp (APA.O) on Monday said it has ended routine gas flaring at its U.S. onshore operations, delivering ahead of schedule on a pledge to Continue Reading
Oil producing countries could lose more than $80 billion dollars a year due to global gas flaring, according to GlobalData. Oil producing countries could lose more than $80 billion dollars Continue Reading
After oil majors promised to impose tighter regulations on gas flaring, following widespread criticism over the levels of gas being released into the atmosphere as a waste product from oil Continue Reading
Getting a permit to burn excess natural gas at Texas oil wells is getting a little bit harder. Texas Railroad Commissioners limited an oil driller to flaring gas for just Continue Reading
Frackers in America’s largest oil field are letting massive amounts of natural gas spill into the atmosphere. Scientists and activists are trying to find the leaks and get them plugged Continue Reading
Private companies in America’s most productive oil region are burning unwanted natural gas at almost six times the level of intensity than publicly listed companies. The majority of flaring by the Continue Reading
Permian flared volume falls to 2% from 16% in Q3 2019 Company to eliminate routine flaring onshore by 2025 Flaring, emissions cuts buoy US output growth in 2021 BP is Continue Reading
As Texas was crippled last month by frigid temperatures that killed more than 100 people and triggered widespread blackouts, drilling companies in the state’s largest oil field were forced to Continue Reading
New Mexico regulators finalized rules to nearly eliminate routine natural gas flaring, making it the second state in the US to ban the practice, as operators in the Permian Delaware Continue Reading
One rather grim data point in the economic recovery from the pandemic: Methane emissions from America’s largest oil field have rebounded. Pollution from the Permian Basin dropped 60% from March to Continue Reading
Gas flaring in the largest U.S. shale plays has been in the spotlight since the shale revolution started. Pressure from society and ESG investors have recently turned up the heat Continue Reading
When Jim Wright won a seat on Texas’ energy regulator against climate activist challenger Chrysta Castaneda, the anti-fossil fuel movement’s collective hearts sank. The planet will be ruined! But the Continue Reading
Colorado energy regulators have voted for a curtailment of gas flaring at oil and gas production sites, limiting approved flaring to just a few circumstances, the Colorado Sun reports , Continue Reading
BP and Shell have urged Texas energy regulators to put a stop to routine gas flaring across the state’s oil fields, Bloomberg reported , citing a joint letter by the Continue Reading
According to the World Bank, energy companies around the world flared 250 billion cubic meters of natural gas last year. That is the highest gas flaring rate since 2009, representing Continue Reading
In the chaos surrounding Hurricane Laura, a sprawling chemical plant in Port Arthur, Texas, released nearly 90 tons of emissions, including a half ton of cancer-causing benzene and 8.7 tons Continue Reading
The crude crash price and subsequent shut-ins across the Permian Basin in the second quarter of 2020 allowed multiple producers to reduce their associated gas flaring volumes, prompting state officials Continue Reading
A flare at an oil and gas processing plant outside Cuero, Texas, in 2015. The study, published this month the journal Environmental Health Perspectives , found that pregnant women who Continue Reading
More a tenth of gas flares in the Permian play tend to malfunction and release unlit methane into the atmosphere, the Environmental Defense Fund has reported, based on a new Continue Reading
The Texas Railroad Commission last month surprised many: it said it would tighten the rules for gas flaring at oil fields later this year. Texas is certainly not the state Continue Reading
The Middle East is making progress in cutting natural gas flaring even as the wider region including North Africa, as well as the US, is showing no sign of a Continue Reading
Texas will look into policies to “drastically reduce” natural gas flaring from the state’s shale patch as investors become increasingly sensitive to climate change concerns. The call to action from Continue Reading
Pioneer Natural Resources CEO Scott Sheffield has called flaring a “black eye” on the Permian Basin. Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, wrote this Continue Reading
A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from Continue Reading
If you take a drive through oil country in western North Dakota at night, you will see hundreds of places where natural gas is being flared (or burned) off. This Continue Reading
Fossil-fuel production may be responsible for much more atmospheric methane than scientists previously thought, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. The results, if they hold, suggest Continue Reading
The insanity continues in the North Dakota Bakken, as the shale industry is flaring nearly 20% of its natural gas production. That is one hell of a lot of natural Continue Reading
ExxonMobil Corp.’s subsidiary XTO Energy, Inc. has entered into a long-term gas gathering and processing agreement with private midstream company Outrigger Energy II under which Outrigger will build a cryogenic Continue Reading
Markets are expecting lower gas prices to return to the Permian Basin next year as surging production overwhelms West Texas again before key midstream capacity expansions enter service in 2021. Continue Reading
When former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in 2013 that the natural gas boom was helping America fight climate change, not everyone was convinced, with methane leaks cited as cause Continue Reading
When leaders from Exxon Mobil and BP gathered last month with other fossil-fuel executives to declare they were serious about climate change, they cited progress in curbing an energy-wasting practice called Continue Reading
Rising shale oil production in the United States that drove gas flaring up 48 percent in 2018 also pushed up the global total by 3 percent to 145 billion cubic Continue Reading
Flaring of natural gas rose 3% year-to-year in 2018 to an estimated 145 billion cum, the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) disclosed on June 12. The growth Continue Reading
