Sentences with phrase «to leak methane»

And that study didn't even look at the impact of leaking methane.

Oil and gas production systems are designed to leak methane because tanks and other equipment could otherwise explode because of gas buildup inside.

They are fresh, and they are leaking methane like crazy.

So although leaked methane is 9 times worse than burned methane, it is only 4.5 times worse than burned coal.

Natural gas can offer climate and public health benefits, but its production too often leaks methane, a heat trapping gas that is at least 34 times as potent as carbon dioxide.

A new study finds that just a few natural gas wells account for more than half of the total volume of leaked methane gas in the United States.

A University of Texas study found last year that natural gas wells leak methane at about the rate reported in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency methane emission inventories, and the leaks can be contained with emissions control technology.

That reduces the greenhouse effect of leaked methane for electricity production down to a GWPfm of 3.3 for equal kilowatt hours produced by coal.

Through a combination of sediment cores analyses and ice - sheet modelling, the study shows that this area has probably been steadily leaking methane from hydrates for 8000 years.

Browne agreed by arguing that oil and gas industries should work more to stop leaking methane that is emitted from oil and gas drilling.

For example, landfills leak methane gas as microbes degrade the trash within.

According to the 2013 report, there is no timeline to abandon an inactive well in B.C., which means it can sit on the landscape leaking methane into groundwater or the atmosphere indefinitely.

The EPA declined to respond to Climate Central's numerous inquiries about whether the agency has any estimate for how much leaking methane can be reduced by regulating VOCs and other pollutants.

Of all the things to be leaking methane on Staten Island in New York City — corroded gas pipes, sewers, the Fresh Kills dump — who would have suspected the mail truck?

Energy companies want to minimize leaking methane because it's the product they sell, said Kathleen Sgamma of the Western Energy Alliance, a trade group.

(Pipelines leak methane at much higher rates than previously understood, and methane is much more dangerous to the environment than carbon dioxide.)

«We're a small enough facility that we didn't fall under the Clean Air Act,» Gailliot says, adding that because the landfill collected construction and demolition debris, it also wasn't subject to regulations applicable to municipal solid waste facilities, but that leaking methane violated Gailliot's «good neighbor» policy, and it wasn't part of the legacy he wanted to leave to his children.

But researchers such as Natalia Shakhova — a visiting scientist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and a participant in some of the Siberian Shelf scientific cruises — are concerned that the undersea permafrost layer has become unstable and is leaking methane long locked in ice crystals, known as methane hydrates.

At some wells in preproduction, the scientists detected 2 to 14 grams of leaking methane per second, per square kilometer.

That's two to three orders of magnitude more leaked methane than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for these wells.

Stanford's Dr. Mary Kang: oil & gas pipes leak methane after shutdown.

«The growing evidence for release of methane in this inaccessible region may suggest that the permafrost lid is starting to get perforated and thus leaking methane.»

However, much of this natural gas has recently been developed by hydraulic fracking, which can have enormous impacts on water quality (if done poorly) and may inadvertently leak methane (another powerful greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere.

Combining the effects of combustion, production, distribution, and leaked methane gives the fuel about the same GHG emissions as coal - 33 grams of CO2, compared to 31.9 grams for coal.

Also, unlike working wells, which have productive lifetimes of 10 to 15 years, abandoned wells can continue to leak methane for decades.

In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning fracked gas worse for the climate than...

About 40 percent of the oil and gas wells in parts of the Marcellus shale region will probably be leaking methane into the groundwater or into the atmosphere, concludes a Cornell - led research team that examined the records of more than 41,000 such wells in Pennsylvania.

The study concluded that the Bakken was leaking methane at a rate of 275,000 tons per year.

«Our planet is leaking methane gas all the time.

That should allow Claire to pinpoint the exact source of the leaking methane so the company can fix it.

But the process has been dogged by concerns over its environmental impact and also its impacts on the climate, because any leaking methane acts as a powerful greenhouse gas.

On Sunday, the commission announced its final decision on the rules, leaving them largely intact from the draft proposal, which was released in November and included strict standards for both leaking methane and VOCs (ClimateWire, Nov. 20, 2013).

Update, 3:55 p.m. For more, make sure to read John Schwartz's excellent recent overview of issues and opportunities related to leaking methane, which noted, among other things, how Colorado state regulations now require use of infrared imaging.

Scientists are somewhat concerned that this leaking methane may eventually reach the atmosphere, contributing to climate change, but only time will tell.

They want to know how much of this infrastructure is leaking methane - a potent greenhouse gas.

Using an airplane to detect greenhouse gas emissions from freshly drilled shale gas wells in Pennsylvania's Marcellus basin, Cornell and Purdue scientists have found that leaked methane is a tougher problem — between a hundred - and a thousandfold — than previously thought, according to a study published April 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Natural gas is 75 - 98 % methane, so leaked methane is lost product.

Natural gas wells represent a significant source of U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as many of them leak methane, which is more than 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Remember that leaking natural gas platform in the North Sea, the one which for a while there was concern about a massive gas cloud exploding, and which it could take months to stop the leaking methane?

Food waste makes up about 20 percent of our waste stream, and when it's bagged and tossed in the landfill it leaks methane, a gas that is 21 times more destructive to the ozone than carbon dioxide, according to the EPA.