Eliminating Fugitive Emissions: The Key to Clean Energy

Apr 01, 2022

A Stanford University study of comprehensive aerial data – multiple measurements of 90% of wells in the New Mexico section of the Permian Basin – demonstrates the enormity of fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas production. Researchers determined that the methane releases from New Mexico’s Permian Basin are almost 200 metric tons per hour – six times higher than Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates....

Tags: New Mexico

Mitigating Methane: $1.15 Billion to Plug Orphan Wells

Feb 04, 2022

The White House announced it will send $1.15 billion to states to clean up thousands of methane-emitting orphaned oil and gas wells, the first tranche of allotments from the $4.7 billion that congress approved for orphaned well cleanup in the recent infrastructure package....

Tags: P&A | Orphan Wells | New Mexico

Permian Pollution

Jan 25, 2022

Over 30 oil and gas facilities in the Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) – well pads, pipelines, compressor stations and processing facilities – were observed “persistently” emitting large volumes of methane over three years of aerial surveys carried out by the Environmental Defense Fund and Carbon Mapper....

Tags: New Mexico | Texas