Emissions

As of 2020, Black Hills Corp. cut the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of its natural gas utility operations by one-third, the natural gas and electric utility reported earlier in February. “From a 2005 baseline, we’ve already achieved a 30% reduction…at our electric utilities and a 33% reduction at our natural gas utilities,” CEO Linn Evans…

Using what they call “groundbreaking” methods, researchers in a new paper claimed to have found up to 12% of the globe’s methane emissions are coming from massive but often overlooked releases from major oil and gas producing regions. The paper, published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science, used thousands of daily images from a European…

Liquified natural gas (LNG) produced at Cameron LNG could have a deep cut in its carbon footprint after Sempra Infrastructure secured a deal for renewable energy at Louisiana facilities. The company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with utility Entergy Louisiana LLC to develop and procure renewable energy to help power the 12 million metric…

Sempra has officially filed an amendment with FERC to change the scope of its Cameron liquefied natural gas (LNG) expansion project in Hackberry, Louisiana. The newly filed amendment, No. CP22-41, with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission makes good on plans executives with Sempra – formally Sempra Energy– have been outlining since last summer. In a…

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) last month released its first annual report to evaluate the cumulative impacts of oil and natural gas emissions, setting the stage for future evaluations and recommendations.  State Senate Bill (SB) 181, enacted in 2019, is designed to limit the effects of emissions and environmental disruptions from oil…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. The year 2022 is littered with risk for economic activity in Mexico. The persistence of an inflationary environment, the expectation of meager…

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is poised for a milestone year on the path toward establishing emissions measurements across the value chain, particularly in the United States, where suppliers have made progress in a way that could give them a commercial advantage.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is urging the Canadian government to require “deep decarbonization” in the country’s oil and natural gas industry.  “Global markets will progressively demand cleaner fuels and will discriminate in favor of more carbon-competitive products,” said the global energy watchdog in a 261-page report issued on Thursday. “Canada is the fourth largest…

Calgary-based TransAlta Corp., a mainstay of investor-owned power generation, on Wednesday ended 65 years of burning coal in its Canadian thermal plants by completing a fuel switch to natural gas for its Alberta network. The company announced its 463 MW Keephills Unit 3, west of Edmonton near Wabamun, finished the historic change. The firm is…