Methane Emissions

Portland, OR-based natural gas utility NW Natural is preparing for carbon neutrality by 2050 with plans to inject hydrogen into its natural gas distribution system.  NW Natural expects to begin a pilot at its Central Portland facility in early 2023 with technology installations from sustainable heat and power technology company Modern Electron. The pilot would…

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin agreed late Wednesday to add $369 billion in energy and climate provisions to a budget reconciliation bill scheduled for a vote next week. The proposed legislation, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, targets a roughly 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030,…

Three of the largest Lower 48 producers have joined worldwide oil and gas peers in pledging to improve methane emissions reporting and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ConocoPhillips, Devon Energy Corp. and Pioneer Natural Resources Co. announced Thursday they were becoming members of the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0 Initiative. The OGMP standard…

Appalachian pure-play CNX Resources Corp. has signed a 15-year deal with a California-based technology company to capture methane to manufacture a biodegradable polymer.  CNX, which develops unconventional natural gas and coalbed methane assets throughout the Appalachian Basin, would capture the methane from coal mines and other third-party industrial operations for Newlight Technologies Inc.  Newlight has…

A coalition of some of the nation’s largest natural gas producers has received independent validation for its methane intensity program.  Our Nation’s Energy Future, better known as ONE Future, consists of companies that work in 16 of the nation’s 38 production basins. Collectively, ONE Future members account for 19% of U.S. natural gas production, 56%…

Mexico’s state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) plans to invest $2 billion to reduce upstream methane emissions by up to 98%, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday. The investment is one of 10 actions Mexico is undertaking to fight climate change, the president said in a video address to the Major Economies Forum…

The $1 billion-plus investment arm of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), established by the CEOs of a dozen energy majors, said its portfolio companies have cut their direct carbon emissions by half since 2019. The decarbonization investor arm, OGCI Climate Investment (OGCI CI), said the 23 Catalyst Fund I portfolio companies realized a…

Houston-based Apache Corp. is expanding its partnership with LongPath Technologies Inc. to build its continuous methane emissions monitoring in the Permian Basin. The APA Corp. subsidiary first partnered with LongPath last fall to use its monitoring systems at dozens of Apache drilling sites. Now, the Houston-based independent plans to employ LongPath’s monitoring systems for about…

The White House on Monday announced a series of measures to reduce methane emissions, including a $1.15 billion program for states to plug orphan oil and gas wells and to enforce tighter emissions rules for natural gas pipeline operators.  The funds are part of a $4.7 billion orphan wells cleanup program authorized under the recently…