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
