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Across Schuyler Wight’s two West Texas ranches, about 250 abandoned oil and gas wells sit open and unused, creating a...
Saudi Arabia is set to fall below Russia and lose its spot as the largest oil producer in the OPEC+...
Exxon said it is purchasing an experienced developer of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) solutions and EOR for $89.4...
With its flaking red paint, broken pressure gauge and cranks fallen to the ground, an oil well sits forsaken in...
Permian midstream mismatch has consequences for the ESG-minded oil and gas industry....
Jeffery Hildebrand built an empire by buying castoff wells from big companies under ESG pressure. Climate activists and Wall Street...
A growing market for offsets has boosted incentives for stopping greenhouse gas emissions....
The $660 million in funding, available to 27 states, will go toward the plugging of so-called orphan wells, or wells...
The US has some 3.7 million derelict oil and gas wells, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates, located everywhere from tiny...
BOEM said on June 27 the proposed changes were intended to better protect American taxpayers from incurring the costs associated...
The oil and gas industry has some of the best and most cost-effective opportunities to reduce methane emissions....
Carbon Credit Market Seizes On a New Opportunity: Plugging Oil and Gas Wells...
McGill University researchers are leading an international team whose goal is to create a framework to help governments in the...
Enverus claims hundreds of millions of barrels of gas condensates are nowhere to be found in public data due to...
The energy world has for decades looked to oil rigs 100 miles off the coast of Scotland’s northernmost islands to...
Pennsylvania Democrats voted Tuesday to advance legislation that would resurrect regulators’ ability to address the commonwealth’s orphaned and abandoned oil...
Standards Are the First to Specifically Address Plugging Orphan Oil and Gas Wells – a Substantial Source of Methane Emissions....
Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper met with oil industry and environmental officials Thursday at an “orphan” oil well to kick off...
The intensity of methane and greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector declined 28% and 30%, respectively, between...
Updated analysis benchmarks the relative emissions intensity and total reported methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide emissions of more than...
Finding an economic and effective solution to seal O&G wells is essential in order to safely decommission our end of...
ZEFIRO METHANE CORP. (the “Company”, “Zefiro”, or “ZEFI”) announced that it has acquired a majority ownership stake in Plants &...
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a greenhouse gas registry, has released a methodology for creating carbon offset credits from plugging...
A resurgence of wildfires across Canada’s main energy producing province in recent days has prompted at least one driller to...
The pace of traditional power plant retirements and a rapid switch to electrification is posing “unprecedented challenges to the reliability...
The Orphan Well project evolved from recommendations in the Final Report of the NT Hydraulic Fracturing Inquiry (HFI). The purpose...
Wildfires in Alberta, Canada, has shut down at least 145,000 boe/d of production and caused the provincial government to declare...
With a slowing global economy crimping demand, Moscow appears not to have followed through on pledges to cut output...
By embracing the twenty-first century tools and techniques of the geospatial mapping, NETL researchers are developing new means of locating...
Implementation of the EPA’s proposal to dramatically cut emissions from model year 2027 cars and light trucks may depend on...
Shale fracking changed the world but now the investors want their share of the bounty. That is going to have...
In this legislative session, Oklahoma lawmakers are again taking a leadership position — this time tackling the near-century-old issue of...
The Biden administration on April 20 said it had agreed on separate settlements worth about $25 million in total with...
Efforts are underway at Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Apollo, and other private-equity heavyweights. They're moving quickly to profit from decarbonization as...
The German cabinet on April 19 approved a bill that bans most new oil and gas heating systems from 2024...
There is approximately 36 Bcf/d of associated wet gas output coming from four major U.S. shale basins – the Permian...
Alberta’s oil and gas methane emissions are estimated to have been reduced by approximately 44% between 2014 and 2021....
In October, Texas was the first state in the nation to begin plugging orphaned oil and gas wells using an...
By directly measuring greenhouse gas emissions from an airplane flying over the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Michigan-led team...
Louisiana leaders took a victory lap last week for their quick work in plugging 100 orphaned oil and gas wells...
Over the next three years, researchers with the West Virginia University Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions will try...
Innovations have made it possible for operators to bring wells back to life through interventions, despite disruptive neighbors, technological limitations...
Chubb Ltd. said Wednesday it will restrict coverage for oil and gas extraction projects unless policyholders reduce methane emissions, a...
MiQ certification to cover all GHGs from LNG supply chain including methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide...
We invite you to join the P&ATS to help our industry thrive, as the expectations from the stakeholders get tougher...
Two recent insolvencies have resulted in the number of orphaned wells and facilities in Saskatchewan ballooning to over 4000. To...
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that a $1.27 million contract has been awarded to plug one abandoned gas well at...
BPX Energy, BP’s US onshore upstream business, has expanded MiQ certification to 100% of BP’s US onshore facilities in Texas...
Funding Supports 22 Projects to Advance Technologies to Monitor, Measure, and Mitigate Methane Emissions Across the U.S. Natural Gas Supply...
his case study highlights the effectiveness of unmanned aerial systems in enabling land-based operators to assess the relative seriousness of...
The Biden EPA plans to allow private citizens to police oil wells and pipelines for methane leaks. Most of the...
The plans seek to meet new state financial requirements, but some smaller operators are hoping to put up only a...
From refracturing old wells to ones that don’t have to be fractured at all, notable producers argue that experiments are...
Federal infrastructure law gives states financial incentive to remediate orphan wells....
The State of New Mexico, using federal funds provided in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is working to plug...
The agency’s draft methane rules released last fall would, for the first time, give citizens and communities a formal role...
The U.S. natural gas industry continues to drive emission reductions across operations, with new data from the EPA’s draft Greenhouse...
More than a year after 110 countries signed onto the Global Methane Pledge at COP26 in Glasgow, nations are starting...
EMNRD’s Oil Conservation Division has reportedly prevented over 46,000 kilograms per year of methane from polluting the atmosphere through its...
Range Resources Corp. touted a long-term monitoring of air around a Cecil Township well pad that it said showed no...
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visited the Pittsburgh area Thursday to announce the plugging of the first 10 abandoned oil and...
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today issued a Secretary’s Order to establish an Orphaned Wells Program Office to ensure...
He said the federal government ordered that the money was to be contracted out right away. The expectation was the...
Unprecedented funding will help reduce hazards from orphaned wells. But regulators are grappling with which ones to tackle first....
EOG Resources Inc. joined the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and...
QT has reduced its methane emissions by 70% and reduced its annual carbon footprint by 305,614 metric tons of CO...
Largest U.S. oil companies retreat from big international projects and plan to spend most of their budgets this year in...
As California transitions away from fossil fuels in the years ahead to pursue aggressive climate goals, an increasing number of...
Satellite imaging of methane emissions offers the fossil fuel industry the empirical data it needs to fix problems that companies...
Europe’s energy-squeezed winter has sent power operators and businesses into high alert for blackout risks, heightened by Russia’s war in...
Natural gas output in the Appalachia region, the top gas-producing basin in the U.S., dropped by a record amount as...
New England seems unable to reduce its reliance on fuel oil to generate electricity during times of peak usage. This...
Sitting about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast near the mouth of the Mississippi River, an abandoned well has been...
The European Union reached an agreement to impose a tax on imports based on the greenhouse gases emitted to make...
Carbon Path and ZeroSix are two companies creating a carbon credit to incentivize companies to plug old oil wells....
With the oil and gas industry accounting for almost 70% of methane emissions in Alberta, the AER is focused on...
Across the country, fossil fuel companies have walked away from thousands of oil and gas wells, leaving them unplugged and...
In the province of Alberta alone, approximately 258,000 wells are designated to be abandoned in the next ten years. This...
he Department of the Interior today announced a proposed rule from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to address the...
U.S. energy company Equitrans Midstream Corp. said it stopped a natural gas leak at its Rager Mountain storage facility in...
An average household that burns heating oil could spend 45% more for it this winter, according to a base-case forecast...
President Biden touted U.S. plans to cut methane emissions and boost climate funding to developing countries in an address that...
On Friday a satellite identified six methane releases in northeast China near the Daqing oilfield, according to GHGSat. If the...
The demise of the dirtiest fossil fuel has been delayed as power shortages and the war in Ukraine drive consumption...
A flotilla of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas have been parked in a maritime traffic jam off the coast of...
National and local regulators say they weren’t aware of a plume of the potent greenhouse gas spotted near the Saskatchewan-Alberta...
The Biden administration is nearing completion of its long-awaited proposal to curb methane gas emissions, setting the stage for a...
The war in Ukraine is raging, Russian natural gas exports to Europe are dwindling and the winter heating season is...
Texas has become the first state in the nation to begin plugging abandoned oil and gas wells using federal grants...
The EPA is moving to include more industrial sources in requirements that govern major facility modifications, according to a proposed...
Luxury shops across the city are turning off their nighttime lights, plunging the Avenue de Montaigne and other areas renowned...
EMSWORTH, Pa.—About 30 years ago, Ralph Molenda learned that he had an abandoned gas well leaking under his driveway. The...
Tags: Orphan Wells
Pennsylvania is up against a clock to finish emissions regulations for oil and gas sites. At risk are hundreds of...
In a study of the three largest oil and gas basins in the United States, the researchers found that the...
Two undersea leaks that began in the Russian-owned Nord Stream gas pipelines on Monday were likely caused by powerful underwater...
Britain on Sept. 22 formally lifted a moratorium on fracking for shale gas that has been in place since 2019...
A report published in June by Spanish university researchers in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters estimated that the...
Natural gas-fired power plants are generating the bulk of California's electricity amid an ongoing energy crisis despite the state's aggressive...
Elon Musk told European energy leaders that the world needs more oil and natural gas and should continue operating nuclear...
Montana is set to receive $25 million from the federal government, to help plug more than 200 orphaned oil and...
Two of New Mexico’s most productive oil and gas counties also contain its most low-producing or “marginal” wells while also...
California claims to know how much climate-warming gas is going into the air from within its borders. It’s the law...
In an effort to monitor for methane emissions non-compliance, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be performing helicopter-based...
One bill in a package has been signed into law aiming to increase the number of orphan wells being plugged...
Tropical wetlands, getting wetter with climate change, emerge as hot spots for heat-trapping gas...
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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The UN is aggregating methane emissions from satellites and other sources into a global database, starting with the energy industry...
The high court said a cap on power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions that forces a transition to other fuels may...
A coal mine in a remote part of Russia is spewing out huge amounts of a very potent greenhouse gas...
Some Bakersfield residents are concerned about potential explosions after a state agency found that six idle oil wells near homes...
Tags: Gas Storage | California
Focusing on carbon dioxide alone will not keep world within 1.5C limit of global heating, warn scientists...
Tags: Gas Storage | Colorado
Legislation that positions Louisiana to receive an estimated $200 million in federal grants to fix orphan oil wells became law...