natural gas flaring

The amount natural gas flared by Mexico’s state oil producer Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has increased by more than 152% in the past four years, from an average of 178 MMcf/d in 2018 to 449 MMcf/d in 2022, according to company figures.  As a result, Mexico in 2022 flared the seventh-largest volume of gas in the…

Private equity firm BP Energy Partners LLC (BPEP) has closed on the sale of Mesa Natural Gas Solutions LLC, a power solution company aimed at helping producers reduce volumes of flared natural gas. BPEP said it had closed the sale of Mesa for an undisclosed amount shortly after Houston-based Arroyo Investors announced it would be…

Natural gas that would otherwise be burned off at U.S. wellsites is set to be captured and turned into profitable LNG in a collaboration between a Golar LNG Ltd. subsidiary and GTUIT LLC. Subsidiary Macaw Energies Ltd. secured a partnership with the Montana-based gas treatment expert to condition and reuse gas that would normally be…

As oil and natural gas output from the Permian Basin has soared 345% from 2011-2020, methane intensity in the basin has fallen more than 76%, according to Texans for Natural Gas (TNG), a campaign run by the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO). In its third annual report, titled Permian Basin Producers: Chartering…

Cal Microturbine, a Capstone Green Energy Corp. distributor, has won an order to install a 1.6 MW natural gas microturbine at a Southern California oil production site, Capstone reported Wednesday. “Every industry has its own specialized power requirements,” said Capstone Green Energy CEO Darren Jamison. “For energy producers, much of the available oil and gas…

Natural gas flaring from operations in the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and Bakken shales does not work as efficiently as it could, with as much as 10% routinely unlit or malfunctioning, new research indicates. The Permian, Eagle Ford and Bakken account for about 80% of the gas flaring in the country, according to the University…

Mexico’s state oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) appears poised to increase its natural gas output as it begins development at the Lakach deepwater field and works to curb the longtime scourge of flaring. “We seek to progressively reduce the level of gas sent into the atmosphere,” executives said last week during a call to review…

Executives at Mexico’s national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in an earnings call Monday that work toward improving natural gas use and lowering emissions is starting to pay off. Pemex reported a 42% improvement in natural gas capture in the first quarter. The company was able to use 91.6% of gas produced, flaring off…

The rate of natural gas flaring by producers in North Dakota declined to an average of 7.5% this year through September, bringing the level of gas burned at the wellhead of the production site below the state’s target for 2021, a new federal report showed. North Dakota set a gas capture goal to keep flaring/venting…