Fuel Substitution: The oil and natural gas industry has spent nearly $ 25 billion developing substitute and less carbon intensive fuels, such as liquefied natural gas and reducing
fugitive gas emissions.
Fugitive gas emissions can not be seen with the naked eye.
Not exact matches
And it remains to be seen whether natural
gas delivers environmental benefits — such as reduced
emissions of carbon dioxide when burned — given that it in itself is a potent greenhouse
gas if it escapes during drilling or pipeline operations, so - called
fugitive emissions.
«It is quite possible to produce natural
gas with minimal «
fugitive»
emissions,» says Mark Brownstein of the EDF.
He estimates that
fugitive emissions are only 10 percent of what Howarth and Ingraffea maintain, and that shale
gas would indeed be a good replacement for home heating oil and for coal used in power plants.
The mega-leak has drawn attention to the broader problem of
fugitive emissions from natural
gas production, processing, pipeline and storage infrastructure across the country.
These include increased use of renewable natural
gas, reduced
fugitive methane
emissions, less need for synthetic fertilizers, and increased land restoration.
But a study published Monday adds to the growing evidence those escaping
gases, called «
fugitive»
emissions, are numerous, especially methane
emissions while a well is being drilled, a phase of well development previously thought to emit little if any methane.
Fugitive methane
emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane
emissions from the U.S. natural
gas distribution sector.
with sidelines into LNG,
Gas fracking (vs agricultural land and water resources) and the obvious
fugitive emissions — especially the endless DISTORTIONS that occur via the «media» and online «activists».
The real problem in weighing
fugitive emissions from
gas and oil wells and pipelines is that there is simply no reliable source of data — at all.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued its latest report on the Methane to Markets program intended to encourage industries to capture «
fugitive»
emissions of the one heat - trapping greenhouse
gas that is a valuable fuel, methane.
I encourage folks to look back at the piece I did on this arena in 2009, in which the formal Environmental Protection Agency estimate of leaks from
gas and oil operates jumped tenfold (with hints from officials that such «
fugitive»
emissions could be a hundredfold higher).
Fugitive emissions like methane challenge pollution control experts, because they do not come from a more easily controllable «point source», like a smokestack or process pipe, which could be fitted with technology to capture or clean up the
gas.
June 1, 2015 Commissioner Workshop, in Support of the AB 1257 Report, on
Fugitive Methane
Emissions in California's Natural
Gas System
Also, if
fugitive methane
emissions exceed 3 percent of total
gas production, natural
gas's climate advantage over coal disappears over a 20 - year time horizon.
The other major uncertainty surrounding the environmental impact of natural
gas is the effect of methane leakages, or «
fugitive methane
emissions» along the delivery chain.
«[Howarth et al.'s] analysis is seriously flawed in that they significantly overestimate the
fugitive emissions associated with unconventional
gas extraction, undervalue the contribution of «green technologies» to reducing those
emissions to a level approaching that of conventional
gas, base their comparison between
gas and coal on heat rather than electricity generation (almost the sole use of coal), and assume a time interval over which to compute the relative climate impact of
gas compared to coal that does not capture the contrast between the long residence time of CO2 and the short residence time of methane in the atmosphere.»
The greenhouse
gas inventory it filed with the UN suggests
fugitive emissions from the oil and
gas sector made up a third of its total footprint in 2014.
The left party also says they'll freeze it, but they'll expand the based of coverage to include
fugitive natural
gas emissions (a crucial omission in the original tax proposal).
Stronger state and federal laws and regulations are also needed, however, for monitoring, evaluating, and mitigating the
fugitive methane
emissions associated with the production and distribution of natural
gas.
Fugitive emissions: Unintended leaks of
gas from the processing, transmission, and / or transportation of fossil fuels.
A lot of this pollution was «
fugitive»
emissions — leaks from valves, flanges, tiny holes in pipes, and incomplete combustion of waste
gasses in the plants» flares.
That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called
fugitive emissions from unconventional natural
gas production offset the
emissions advantages natural
gas has over coal in power generation.
Expanding the carbon tax to include all greenhouse
gas emissions generated in B.C., or capturing these «
fugitive» industrial
emissions as part of a future cap and trade system.
But SoCal
Gas is under no such obligation, because the Porter Ranch plume is comprised of «
fugitive emissions», which are «those
emissions which are unintentional and could not reasonably pass through a stack, chimney, vent, or other functionally - equivalent opening,» according to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), which oversees the state's cap - and - trade system.
Industrial Processes By - product or
fugitive emissions of greenhouse
gases from industrial processes.
Yes I can say Muller misstated the difference in
emissions between coal, oil and
gas, because the other components of life cycle
emissions (such as the
fugitive emissions you referred to) are small compared with
emissions from fuel combustion.
Anthony Hobley, CEO Carbon Tracker: «
Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure
gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal»
These «
fugitive emissions» must be kept below 3 % for
gas to maintain its climate benefit over coal, so minimising them should be a high priority for the industry.
A carbon tax could come back to bite natural
gas producers big time if the EPA decides, along the lines of Cornell University research, that
fugitive methane
emissions from hydraulic fracturing make natural
gas as carbon - intensive as coal.
«
Fugitive emissions are on the run in the U.S. — regulators, investors and industry leaders are all out to ensure
gas can demonstrate it has a climate advantage over coal,» said Anthony Hobley, CEO of Carbon Tracker.
Fugitive methane
emissions — which occur when natural
gas is leaked or vented — are another avoidable climate change contributor.
It can deliver better outcomes than coal, but
gas must continue to work on reducing its
fugitive emissions and there is a possibility that if it reaches too large a share of the energy mix then in the longer run this could still be incompatible with a 2 ⁰ C outcome»
Industry, with the full support of the administration, continues the fait accompli of radically expanded natural
gas fracking across the country, with serious unresolved issues about
fugitive atmospheric methane
emissions and the potential for contamination of drinking water aquifers — and with no adequate federal regulatory structure in place.
A University of Texas study from last year — sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and the oil and natural
gas industry — put
fugitive methane
emissions at 0.42 percent of total production.
Fugitive emissions occur when
gases or vapors escape from pressurized equipment.
Most of our venting and
fugitive emissions are methane, which represent approximately 6 percent of our direct greenhouse
gas emissions.
Discusses and quantifies energy - related
emissions of all greenhouse
gases resulting from stationary and mobile source activities, including fuel combustion and
fugitive fuel
emissions.
And it is true that over the short term,
fugitive methane
emissions have the potential to erode most or all of the CO2
emissions benefit resulting from switching from coal to
gas.
Bringing that methane to market along with the natural
gas being produced leads to a «strikingly lower» estimate of so - called
fugitive emissions.
The scientists blamed «
fugitive» methane
emissions said to escape during the recovery of natural
gas.
Another problem with natural
gas is called «
fugitive emissions».
Then again, to the extent that natural
gas substitutes for coal in electricity generation (and
fugitive methane
emissions are low) and electric vehicles powered by relatively clean electricity substitute for gasoline and diesel, CO2
emissions over the next two decades could be far less than expected 10 years ago.
There is evidence to suggest
gas - fired electricity generation may actually be worse than coal - fired generation on a 20 - year timescale when
fugitive emissions are taken into account.
The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct
emissions via flaring and venting processes,
emissions from entities using their own fuel, and
fugitive emissions of methane from oil and
gas operations and coal mining.
Present measurement and accounting of
fugitive emissions of methane from unconventional
gas extraction is inadequate.
The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental
emissions of greenhouse
gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential
fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse
gases.
New coal plants are being built there, so if
gas truly is better than coal despite
fugitive emissions, then new
gas has additional value.
Fugitive methane
emissions occur at every stage of the natural
gas life cycle; however, the total amount of leakage is unclear.