Sentences with phrase «fugitive methane»

These estimates do not account for fugitive methane emissions from natural gas production and transport (a subject of considerable debate and study), or the climate impacts of land - use change associated with biofuels development.

But thanks to the University of Texas, the Environmental Defense Fund, and others, we have taken a tremendous step forward in filling in our knowledge about the exact nature of fugitive methane emissions.

«We'd like to get data for fugitive methane emissions as well.

We outline a number of state and federal policies and industry best practices to cost - effectively reduce fugitive methane emissions.

June 1, 2015 Commissioner Workshop, in Support of the AB 1257 Report, on Fugitive Methane Emissions in California's Natural Gas System

«The very limited current data on fugitive methane leakage also suggests that a relatively small number of oil and gas operations may be responsible for a large fraction of the methane leakage,» he said.

If fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas systems are indeed five times greater than previously estimated, that would imply a leakage rate in the range of 5 - 15 percent of total production.

This dramatically smaller value can directly affect the way people think about fugitive methane.

Now they have spotted something else from space: large plumes of fugitive methane gas liberated from these formations by unconventional extraction methods like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Controlling Fugitive Methane Emissions in the Oil and Gas Sector calls on governments in oil and gas producing countries to determine whether they have effective regulations in place to minimize methane emissions.

Even at the lower end, fugitive methane adds to climate change.

The researchers considered both high and low estimates for this so - called fugitive methane.

If the fuel is to be used as a bridge between coal and renewable sources of energy, the amount of fugitive methane leaking from the natural gas system needs to be minimal.

Thus, although fugitive methane emissions reduce the short - term emissions benefit of coal - to - gas switching --- and should be addressed for that reason — they do not limit natural gas's potential as a bridge fuel to a low carbon future.

And a recent report from the World Resources Institute identifies several promising options for further limiting fugitive methane emissions.

I will argue that the proper value to use when considering fugitive methane is not 25 but 3.3.

However, this comparison fails to account for upstream fugitive methane emissions.

It's well documented that fracking to produce shale gas generates fugitive methane, which is the main component of natural gas.

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.

One important reason the MIT study differs from the Cornell critique is that the MIT researchers recognized that energy companies often have both the ability and incentive to capture and sell fugitive methane.

Also for fugitive methane capture.

During its 20 - year lifetime, the Dovan digester project will keep an estimated 7,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted by fossil - fueled power plants, and it will prevent fugitive methane from manure storage equivalent to an estimated 22,000 tons of CO2.

We do, however, know enough on how to reduce fugitive methane now — for the good of the environment and human health.

We know a lot more about where fugitive methane emissions come from and how to address them.

Recent standards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will substantially reduce leakage from natural gas systems, but to help slow the rate of global warming and improve air quality, further action by states and EPA should directly address fugitive methane from new and existing wells and equipment.

As the editor of the trade paper Marcellus Drilling News put it, «the only fugitive methane of any significance is the stuff emanating from these two.»

Instrumented and optical fugitive methane emission surveys monitor well site or gathering and boosting station components within each company - defined area.

But for the biggest emission on everyone's mind, greenhouse gases, natural gas also beats coal, emitting about two - thirds of the carbon - equivalent of coal, even with fugitive methane emissions.

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.

These include increased use of renewable natural gas, reduced fugitive methane emissions, less need for synthetic fertilizers, and increased land restoration.

Any direct measurement data helps bring clarity to the confusing world of fugitive methane emissions.

Using ethane as a tracer for fugitive methane emissions, his team found two high - emitting sites in the central United States.

The UT Austin measurements were also more recent and demonstrate the impact that the aforementioned EPA rules are having on fugitive methane emissions during the production stage.

While leakage rates of «fugitive methane» are currently around 4 percent according to EPA, they need to be at less than 1 percent of total production.

The researchers estimate that cutting those 14 together could avoid between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths (largely from smoky, unhealthy air) and increase crop yields by between 30 million and 135 million metric tons (due to concomitant reductions in ground - level ozone, otherwise known as smog, which forms from fugitive methane and blights crops in Brazil, China, India, the U.S. and elsewhere).

This giant belch of «fugitive methane» can be seen in infrared videos taken at well sites.

Fugitive methane emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas distribution sector.

Let's call the greenhouse potential for fugitive methane (GWPfm) 9.

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.

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.

A study released by Bankwatch in late January has shown that, due to fugitive methane emissions and burning of gas, the Southern Gas Corridor's climate footprint could be comparable to that of coal, the dirtiest source of energy, or even worse.

Fugitive methane emissions are 34 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over a 100 - year period, and 86 times stronger over 20 years.

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 methane emissions — which occur when natural gas is leaked or vented — are another avoidable climate change contributor.

More and more people are learning about how bad fracking is, even Robert F. Kennedy jr, came out and publicly admitted that Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels and is worse for climate change then using coal because of the fugitive methane emissions that are released in the fracking process's.

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.