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TX Orphan
States struggle to plug oil wells with infrastructure law cash

Across Schuyler Wight’s two West Texas ranches, about 250 abandoned oil and gas wells sit open and unused, creating a...

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Opec
Saudi Arabia to Lose Top Spot in OPEC+

Saudi Arabia is set to fall below Russia and lose its spot as the largest oil producer in the OPEC+...

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Exxon Billings
Exxon to Buy Denbury in $4.9B All-stock Deal

Exxon said it is purchasing an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) solutions and EOR for $89.4...

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Canada Orphan
In Canada, deserted oil wells are environmental time bombs

With its flaking red paint, broken pressure gauge and cranks fallen to the ground, an oil well sits forsaken in...

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Permian Flaring Scenarios
To Flare or Not to Flare?

Permian midstream mismatch has consequences for the ESG-minded oil and gas industry....

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Hilcorp
How a Houston Oilman Confounded Climate Activists and Made Billions

Jeffery Hildebrand built an empire by buying castoff wells from big companies under ESG pressure. Climate activists and Wall Street...

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OK Well
Plugging Methane Leaks From Derelict Oil Wells for Carbon Credit

A growing market for offsets has boosted incentives for stopping greenhouse gas emissions....

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DOI
Biden administration announces $650 million to plug orphaned gas and oil wells

The $660 million in funding, available to 27 states, will go toward the plugging of so-called orphan wells, or wells...

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OK Orphan
Plugging Methane Leaks From Derelict Oil Wells for Carbon Credit

The US has some 3.7 million derelict oil and gas wells, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates, located everywhere from tiny...

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Offshore BOEM
BOEM Updating Decommissioning Financial Requirements

BOEM said on June 27 the proposed changes were intended to better protect American taxpayers from incurring the costs associated...

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Pipeline Flare
Financing reductions in oil and gas methane emissions

The oil and gas industry has some of the best and most cost-effective opportunities to reduce methane emissions....

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CA Orphan Well
Carbon Credit Market Seizes On a New Opportunity: Plugging Oil and Gas Wells

Carbon Credit Market Seizes On a New Opportunity: Plugging Oil and Gas Wells...

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Wellhead
Environmental risks and opportunities of orphaned oil and gas wells

McGill University researchers are leading an international team whose goal is to create a framework to help governments in the...

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Missing in the Montney: Unreported Wet Gas Skews Picture of Canada’s Premier Shale Play

Enverus claims hundreds of millions of barrels of gas condensates are nowhere to be found in public data due to...

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Move Over, Scotland. U.S. Oil Enters World’s Most Important Benchmark.

The energy world has for decades looked to oil rigs 100 miles off the coast of Scotland’s northernmost islands to...

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PA Derrick
Pennsylvania Legislators Claw Back the State’s Power to Plug Abandoned Wells

Pennsylvania Democrats voted Tuesday to advance legislation that would resurrect regulators’ ability to address the commonwealth’s orphaned and abandoned oil...

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OK Pumps
American Carbon Registry's New Methodology Is Giant Step Forward to Halt Methane Emissions From Orphan Wells: Rebellion Energy Solutions

Standards Are the First to Specifically Address Plugging Orphan Oil and Gas Wells – a Substantial Source of Methane Emissions....

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CO Oilandgas
Leaky abandoned oil wells being sealed in Adams County

Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper met with oil industry and environmental officials Thursday at an “orphan” oil well to kick off...

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Flaring Bakken
The intensity of methane emissions from oil and gas sector has declined, study finds

The intensity of methane and greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector declined 28% and 30%, respectively, between...

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Flaring
Updated analysis shows dramatic variation of methane emissions among U.S. oil and gas producers

Updated analysis benchmarks the relative emissions intensity and total reported methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions of more than...

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Abandonedwell
Ending Methane Leaks in Retired Oil and Gas Wells for Good

Finding an economic and effective solution to seal O&G wells is essential in order to safely decommission our end of...

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Zefiro Methane Acquires Pennsylvania-Based Oil/Gas Well-Plugging Company Plants & Goodwin

ZEFIRO METHANE CORP. (the “Company”, “Zefiro”, or “ZEFI”) announced that it has acquired a majority ownership stake in Plants &...

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Abandoned Well
Harnessing the VCM to retire orphaned oil and gas wells

The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a greenhouse gas registry, has released a methodology for creating carbon offset credits from plugging...

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Canada Wildfires
Fire Rebound in Canadian Natural Gas Region Prompts New Outage

A resurgence of wildfires across Canada’s main energy producing province in recent days has prompted at least one driller to...

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Natural Gas Critical to Grid Security

The pace of traditional power plant retirements and a rapid switch to electrification is posing “unprecedented challenges to the reliability...

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Challenges and lessons learnt from Northern Territory (NT) Orphan Well project

The Orphan Well project evolved from recommendations in the Final Report of the NT Hydraulic Fracturing Inquiry (HFI). The purpose...

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Alberta Wildfires
Canadian Wildfires Close Down Oil, Gas Production

Wildfires in Alberta, Canada, has shut down at least 145,000 boe/d of production and caused the provincial government to declare...

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Oil Prices Under Pressure on Economic Fears and Gusher of Russian Supply

With a slowing global economy crimping demand, Moscow appears not to have followed through on pledges to cut output...

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NETLS Orphan Wells
NETL HARNESSING GEOSPATIAL MAPPING TO ADDRESS ORPHANED WELLS

By embracing the twenty-first century tools and techniques of the geospatial mapping, NETL researchers are developing new means of locating...

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TX EPA
EPA’s Emissions Proposals Could Hinge on Outcome of Texas Lawsuit

Implementation of the EPA’s proposal to dramatically cut emissions from model year 2027 cars and light trucks may depend on...

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Wall Street Oil
Wall Street Is Finally Going to Make Money Off the Permian

Shale fracking changed the world but now the investors want their share of the bounty. That is going to have...

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There are about 16,000 documented orphaned wells in Oklahoma — and a solution

In this legislative session, Oklahoma lawmakers are again taking a leadership position — this time tackling the near-century-old issue of...

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US Settles Air Pollution Cases With Three Natural Gas Processors

The Biden administration on April 20 said it had agreed on separate settlements worth about $25 million in total with...

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The messy, high-stakes world of private equity's fossil-fuel dilemma

Efforts are underway at Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Apollo, and other private-equity heavyweights. They're moving quickly to profit from decarbonization as...

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German Cabinet Approves Bill to Phase Out Oil and Gas Heating Systems

The German cabinet on April 19 approved a bill that bans most new oil and gas heating systems from 2024...

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Natural Gas US
Analysis: Wells in Top U.S. Oil Basins Getting Gassier

There is approximately 36 Bcf/d of associated wet gas output coming from four major U.S. shale basins – the Permian...

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Alberta SCVF
Alberta Methane Reductions

Alberta’s oil and gas methane emissions are estimated to have been reduced by approximately 44% between 2014 and 2021....

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Texas Orphan Wells
RCC showcases speedy work plugging orphaned wells with U.S. Secretary of the Interior visit

In October, Texas was the first state in the nation to begin plugging orphaned oil and gas wells using an...

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Gulfof Mexico Methane
Gulf offshore oil and gas production has double the climate impact as inventories report

By directly measuring greenhouse gas emissions from an airplane flying over the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Michigan-led team...

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Louisiana Inactive Wells
Orphaned oil wells are one problem; inactive wells are potentially much bigger

Louisiana leaders took a victory lap last week for their quick work in plugging 100 orphaned oil and gas wells...

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WVU Methane Emissions
WVU researchers receive $5.5M to examine methane emissions at oil and gas sites

Over the next three years, researchers with the West Virginia University Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions will try...

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Well Interventions: Producing the Cheapest Barrels and the Biggest Headaches

Innovations have made it possible for operators to bring wells back to life through interventions, despite disruptive neighbors, technological limitations...

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Methane
Chubb demands policyholders reduce methane emissions

Chubb Ltd. said Wednesday it will restrict coverage for oil and gas extraction projects unless policyholders reduce methane emissions, a...

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Methane
MiQ Launches World's First Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Certification and Registry for LNG

MiQ certification to cover all GHGs from LNG supply chain including methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide...

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Abandonedwell
SPE Launches the Plug and Abandonment Technical Section

We invite you to join the P&ATS to help our industry thrive, as the expectations from the stakeholders get tougher...

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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Makes it Easier to Adopt Orphan Wells

Two recent insolvencies have resulted in the number of orphaned wells and facilities in Saskatchewan ballooning to over 4000. To...

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New River Gorge
Manchin Announces $1.27M Contract Award to Plug Abandoned Gas Well at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve March 14, 2023

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that a $1.27 million contract has been awarded to plug one abandoned gas well at...

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BP
BP Expands Natural Gas Certification to All US Onshore Upstream Operations

BPX Energy, BP’s US onshore upstream business, has expanded MiQ certification to 100% of BP’s US onshore facilities in Texas...

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Methane Monitoring
DOE Invests $47 Million to Reduce Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Sector

Funding Supports 22 Projects to Advance Technologies to Monitor, Measure, and Mitigate Methane Emissions Across the U.S. Natural Gas Supply...

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Methane Drone
Automated Unmanned Systems Quantify Emissions in the Permian

his case study highlights the effectiveness of unmanned aerial systems in enabling land-based operators to assess the relative seriousness of...

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Pennsylvania Orphan Wells
Climate Vigilantes Could ‘Weaponize’ EPA Rule Against Oil & Gas

The Biden EPA plans to allow private citizens to police oil wells and pipelines for methane leaks. Most of the...

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CO Oil
Colorado oil and gas companies offer $459 million to guarantee their wells are plugged eventually

The plans seek to meet new state financial requirements, but some smaller operators are hoping to put up only a...

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Engineers and Execs Agree—Shale Science Projects Are Worth It

From refracturing old wells to ones that don’t have to be fractured at all, notable producers argue that experiments are...

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Orphan No More: Federal Funds Begin Flowing to State Coffers for Orphan Well Remediation

Federal infrastructure law gives states financial incentive to remediate orphan wells....

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New Mexico Oil
Here's what we know about New Mexico's efforts to fix abandoned oil and gas wells

The State of New Mexico, using federal funds provided in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is working to plug...

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Permian Basin Flare
EPA’s risky methane gambit: Let outsiders look for leaks

The agency’s draft methane rules released last fall would, for the first time, give citizens and communities a formal role...

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Appalachian Rig
U.S. Nat Gas Carries Top Env. Score, New EPA Data Confirms

The U.S. natural gas industry continues to drive emission reductions across operations, with new data from the EPA’s draft Greenhouse...

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Flir Methane Vent
A guide to monitoring and quantifying methane emissions from the oil and gas sector

More than a year after 110 countries signed onto the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 in Glasgow, nations are starting...

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New Mexico
New Mexico plans to plug abandoned oil and gas wells

EMNRD’s Oil Conservation Division has reportedly prevented over 46,000 kilograms per year of methane from polluting the atmosphere through its...

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Range
Range Resources touts monitoring of air quality near Cecil well site

Range Resources Corp. touted a long-term monitoring of air around a Cecil Township well pad that it said showed no...

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Orphan Well Cleanup in Pennsylvania Underscores Enormity of Task

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visited the Pittsburgh area Thursday to announce the plugging of the first 10 abandoned oil and...

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US Sets Up Office To Oversee Abandoned Oil Well Cleanup

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today issued a Secretary’s Order to establish an Orphaned Wells Program Office to ensure...

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Michigan Orphan Wells
Michigan hopes to clean up all 450 of its abandoned oil and gas wells in the next 2 years

He said the federal government ordered that the money was to be contracted out right away. The expectation was the...

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California Well
Hundreds of deserted oil and gas wells in Southern California could soon get plugged

Unprecedented funding will help reduce hazards from orphaned wells. But regulators are grappling with which ones to tackle first....

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EOG Methane
EOG Joins OGMP 2.0 For Improved Methane Emissions Reporting

EOG Resources Inc. joined the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and...

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EQT Emissions
EQT Corporation Reduces its Methane Emissions by 70%

QT has reduced its methane emissions by 70% and reduced its annual carbon footprint by 305,614 metric tons of CO...

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Exxon, Chevron Focus on Oil Projects in the Americas

Largest U.S. oil companies retreat from big international projects and plan to spend most of their budgets this year in...

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As California pursues aggressive climate goals, what happens to its oil and gas workers?

As California transitions away from fossil fuels in the years ahead to pursue aggressive climate goals, an increasing number of...

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Satellite Imaging of Methane Super-Emitters To Provide Data To Clean Up Supply Chains

Satellite imaging of methane emissions offers the fossil fuel industry the empirical data it needs to fix problems that companies...

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Europe Goes on Blackout Watch as Winter Descends

Europe’s energy-squeezed winter has sent power operators and businesses into high alert for blackout risks, heightened by Russia’s war in...

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Winter Storm
U.S. Natural Gas Production Plunges As Winter Storm Wreaks Havoc

Natural gas output in the Appalachia region, the top gas-producing basin in the U.S., dropped by a record amount as...

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Fuel Oil
ISO New England Pumps Up The Fuel Oil Again During Winter Storm

New England seems unable to reduce its reliance on fuel oil to generate electricity during times of peak usage. This...

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Gulf Oil
Here’s Why 32,000+ Abandoned & Orphaned Offshore Wells Litter the Outer Continental Shelf

Sitting about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River, an abandoned well has been...

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Europe Energy
Europe Strikes Deal to Tax Imports Based on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

The European Union reached an agreement to impose a tax on imports based on the greenhouse gases emitted to make...

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Legacy Oil Well
Carbon credits for oil companies?

Carbon Path and ZeroSix are two companies creating a carbon credit to incentivize companies to plug old oil wells....

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AER Fugitive Emissions
Keep off the AER infraction list: fugitive emissions inspections and reporting

With the oil and gas industry accounting for almost 70% of methane emissions in Alberta, the AER is focused on...

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Orphan Well Map
With money on the table, states identify 120,000 leak-prone oil wells

Across the country, fossil fuel companies have walked away from thousands of oil and gas wells, leaving them unplugged and...

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AB Wells
Abandonment issues- regulatory changes and cost impacts

In the province of Alberta alone, approximately 258,000 wells are designated to be abandoned in the next ten years. This...

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Interior Department Takes Action to Reduce Methane Releases on Public and Tribal Lands

he Department of the Interior today announced a proposed rule from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to address the...

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Equitrans Stops Natgas Leak at Pennsylvania Storage Facility

U.S. energy company Equitrans Midstream Corp. said it stopped a natural gas leak at its Rager Mountain storage facility in...

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New England Heating Oil
Heating New England’s Homes Will Be Expensive This Winter

An average household that burns heating oil could spend 45% more for it this winter, according to a base-case forecast...

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Flaring
Biden Announces Restrictions on Methane Emissions at COP27

President Biden touted U.S. plans to cut methane emissions and boost climate funding to developing countries in an address that...

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China Methane
Methane Clouds Spotted in China by High-Resolution Satellite

On Friday a satellite identified six methane releases in northeast China near the Daqing oilfield, according to GHGSat. If the...

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Coal
Coal Was Meant to Be History. Instead, Its Use Is Soaring

The demise of the dirtiest fossil fuel has been delayed as power shortages and the war in Ukraine drive consumption...

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2-Minute Showers and a Flotilla of Gas Shipments: Europe Braces for Winter

A flotilla of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas have been parked in a maritime traffic jam off the coast of...

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A Methane Cloud Highlights Cracks in Canada’s Climate Ambitions

National and local regulators say they weren’t aware of a plume of the potent greenhouse gas spotted near the Saskatchewan-Alberta...

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Tougher Rules on Methane Leaks Coming, but Low-Output Wells Might Catch a Break

The Biden administration is nearing completion of its long-awaited proposal to curb methane gas emissions, setting the stage for a...

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Europe
Why Natural Gas Prices in Europe Are Suddenly Plunging

The war in Ukraine is raging, Russian natural gas exports to Europe are dwindling and the winter heating season is...

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TX
Texas becomes first state to plug wells with federal grants

Texas has become the first state in the nation to begin plugging abandoned oil and gas wells using federal grants...

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Flare
EPA Plan Raises Permit Requirements for ‘Fugitive’ Emissions

The EPA is moving to include more industrial sources in requirements that govern major facility modifications, according to a proposed...

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Paris
Paris Cuts the Lights to Save Energy. Will It Help?

Luxury shops across the city are turning off their nighttime lights, plunging the Avenue de Montaigne and other areas renowned...

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Nationwide Work Starts to Plug Abandoned Gas and Oil Wells

EMSWORTH, Pa.—About 30 years ago, Ralph Molenda learned that he had an abandoned gas well leaking under his driveway. The...

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PA Well
Pa. needs to finish emissions regulations for oil and gas sites by December or face sanctions, EPA says

Pennsylvania is up against a clock to finish emissions regulations for oil and gas sites. At risk are hundreds of...

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Permian Flare
Methane Might Be a Bigger Climate Problem Than Thought, Study Finds

In a study of the three largest oil and gas basins in the United States, the researchers found that the...

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Nord Stream
Seismologists suspect explosions damaged undersea pipelines that carry Russian gas

Two undersea leaks that began in the Russian-owned Nord Stream gas pipelines on Monday were likely caused by powerful underwater...

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Britain Lifts Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas

Britain on Sept. 22 formally lifted a moratorium on fracking for shale gas that has been in place since 2019...

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Mexico's oil company acknowledges releasing methane plume

A report published in June by Spanish university researchers in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters estimated that the...

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California's grid leaning heavily on natural gas to survive energy crisis, despite green push

Natural gas-fired power plants are generating the bulk of California's electricity amid an ongoing energy crisis despite the state's aggressive...

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Elon Musk Says World Needs More Oil and Gas

Elon Musk told European energy leaders that the world needs more oil and natural gas and should continue operating nuclear...

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Montana receiving $25M federal grant to plug orphaned oil, gas wells

Montana is set to receive $25 million from the federal government, to help plug more than 200 orphaned oil and...

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New Mexico's oil counties lead nation in low-producing, high-polluting wells, report says

Two of New Mexico’s most productive oil and gas counties also contain its most low-producing or “marginal” wells while also...

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California not counting methane leaks from idle wells

California claims to know how much climate-warming gas is going into the air from within its borders. It’s the law...

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EPA Announces Flyovers in the Permian Basin in New Mexico and Texas

In an effort to monitor for methane emissions non-compliance, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be performing helicopter-based...

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One bill in a package to plug 200,000 orphan wells in the state has been signed into law

One bill in a package has been signed into law aiming to increase the number of orphan wells being plugged...

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In ominous sign for global warming feedback loop may be accelerating methane emissions
In ominous sign for global warming, feedback loop may be accelerating methane emissions

Tropical wetlands, getting wetter with climate change, emerge as hot spots for heat-trapping gas...

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Methane emissions reach new highs despite pandemic—four times more sensitive to climate change than first thought

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that methane is responsible for around one-third of...

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Methane SAT
Satellites can now find the sources of methane leaks. The tech will reshape global climate accountability

The UN is aggregating methane emissions from satellites and other sources into a global database, starting with the energy industry...

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U.S. Supreme Court ruling limits EPA’s authority in regulating greenhouse gases

The high court said a cap on power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions that forces a transition to other fuels may...

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Satellite spots world's 'largest' methane leak in a Russian coal mine

A coal mine in a remote part of Russia is spewing out huge amounts of a very potent greenhouse gas...

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Gas wells leak explosive levels of methane in Bakersfield

Some Bakersfield residents are concerned about potential explosions after a state agency found that six idle oil wells near homes...

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Sharp cut in methane now could help avoid worst of climate crisis

Focusing on carbon dioxide alone will not keep world within 1.5C limit of global heating, warn scientists...

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Louisiana enacts new orphan oil well law to fetch $200 million in federal money

Legislation that positions Louisiana to receive an estimated $200 million in federal grants to fix orphan oil wells became law...

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