Mexican President Andrés Maneul López Obrador, joined by U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday pledged to create a “North American strategy on methane and black carbon” during a trilateral summit in Washington, DC. The strategy will aim “to reduce methane emissions from all sectors, especially oil and gas,” the…
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Biden, Trudeau, López Obrador Pledge to Curb Oil and Gas Methane Emissions in Trilateral Summit
President Biden, joined by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday pledged to create a “North American strategy on methane and black carbon” during a trilateral summit this week in Washington, DC. The strategy will aim “to reduce methane emissions from all sectors, especially oil and gas,” the…
Diversified to Expand Appalachia Upstream Methane Detection by 500%
Diversified Energy Co. plc reported Tuesday that it is expanding methane emissions detection capability across its Appalachian upstream field operations. The independent said it would deploy another 500 methane emissions detection devices to its field operations team, building upon a 100-unit pilot project it has conducted in the region. The pilot project “proved to be…
Canada Calls for Cutting Oil, Natural Gas Methane Emissions by 75% by 2030
Canada stepped forward Monday as the first and so far only national subscriber to a global climate change policy goal of cutting oil and gas industry methane emissions by 75% from 2012 levels as of 2030. Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson kept a Canadian Liberal government re-election promise by endorsing a toughened version of a…
Chisholm to Monitor Permian Delaware Emissions as Project Canary Snags Another E&P Client
Privately held Chisholm Energy Holdings LLC plans to install air emissions monitors at some Permian Basin production facilities in southeastern New Mexico as it works toward becoming certified by Project Canary. Sponsored by Warburg Pincus and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the Permian exploration and production (E&P) company expects to become the first independent working in…
Leading U.S. Natural Gas Operators Collaborate to Verify Emissions Reductions Across Supply Chains
A coalition of leading U.S. natural gas operators, including Devon Energy Corp., EQT Corp., Sempra, Southern Company and Williams, on Friday launched an initiative to accelerate and verify standards to reduce facility methane leaks. The Veritas project, created by researcher GTI, is dubbed the Differentiated Gas Measurement and Verification Initiative. The collaboration of industry, scientists,…
Permian Delaware Producers, Midstreamers Said Struggling to Control Methane Emissions
Aerial methane measurements taken during August in the Permian Basin indicate the oil and gas industry continues to have issues in controlling flaring and venting, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said Thursday. The EDF’s ongoing Permian Methane Analysis Project, aka PermianMAP, is collecting methane emissions from the air, via towers and on the ground across…
U.S., Europe Targeting 30% Reduction in Global Methane Emissions by 2030, Says Biden
President Biden said Friday the United States and the European Union will target a 30% reduction in global methane emissions versus 2005 levels by 2030. The president unveiled the Global Methane Pledge in an address kicking off the virtually held Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate. President Biden urged fellow world leaders to sign…
National Fuel Gas Looks to Lower Carbon Footprint from E&P, Midstream and Utility Businesses
National Fuel Gas Co., whose footprint extends across the country, has set a goal to lower its carbon footprint in 2030 by double-digits across the exploration, midstream and utility segments. The goals were announced recently in the company’s 2020 Corporate Responsibility report, which provided a review of environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. The diversified…
Texas Oil, Gas Operators Using Innovations to Reduce Flaring, Methane Emissions
The Texas energy sector is making substantial progress to reduce methane emissions, with flared natural gas volumes down by almost three-quarters between June 2019 and May, according to an industry-backed report. The Texas Methane & Flaring Coalition on Wednesday issued the first edition of its Methane & Emissions Report. The coalition, established in December 2019,…