Tag: methane

Neuquén monitors methane emissions in inactive and abandoned wells

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BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (By Ana Sanches, Energy Analytics Institute, 21.May.2026, Words: 282) — Argentina’s Undersecretariat of Hydrocarbons, under the Ministry of Energy of the Province of NeuquĂ©n, participated a methane (CH₄) emissions monitoring campaign in 124 inactive and abandoned wells distributed across 64 hydrocarbon areas. Detection of methane in these wells […]

Kuva Systems Awarded $5mn Contract with US DOE’s MERP

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HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 24.Jan.2025) — Kuva Systems was awarded a $5mn contract with the US Department of Energy‘s (DOE) Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP). The agreement supports Kuva in refining and demonstrating its cutting-edge remote emissions investigation system across 175 oil and gas sites in the […]

Eni Releases 2024 Methane Report

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(Eni, 26.Sep.2024) — Eni SpA’s actions to reduce methane emissions across its operations are revealed in the company’s Methane Report 2024. ____________________

Venture Global Reveals of State of the Art LNG Vessels

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(Venture Global, 18.Mar.2024) — Venture Global LNG announced the acquisition and construction of a new large fleet of LNG-powered vessels. Venture Global’s fleet will include nine vessels, currently under construction in South Korea, that will be delivered starting later this year. Six vessels will have a cargo capacity of 174,000 […]

IKM Testing UK Inks Project for Methane Emissions Qualification (MEQ)

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(IKM Testing, 23.May.2023) — Independent integrated solutions provider IKM Testing UK has secured a second contract with Bumi Armada to deliver a drone-based methane emissions survey on the Kraken Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel in the North Sea. The project follows a successful aerial survey in November 2022 […]

NatGas in Transition to Low-Carbon Economies [PDF Download]

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(IGU, OLADE, ARPEL, 17.Apr.2023) — The world needs to transition to low-carbon economies to reduce global warming while continuing to promote sustainable socioeconomic development for a growing global population. Achieving this massive goal requires a radical transformation in how energy is supplied and used worldwide, as 73% of global greenhouse […]

Chevron Drops Its 2022 Methane Report [PDF Download]

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(Energy Analytics Institute, 9.Feb.2023) — California-based energy giant Chevron Corporation released its 2022 methane report, which it said builds on its climate change-related reporting and provides detailed information on its ongoing work to reduce methane intensity and improve methane emissions inventories.  “We recognize the challenges and opportunities in the evolving […]

Pemex Acknowledges Releasing Methane Plume

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(The Associated Press, 8.Sep.2022) — Mexico’s state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos oil company acknowledged Thursday it released a plume of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Gulf of Mexico late last year, but said it was far smaller than Spanish researchers said. A report published in June by Spanish university researchers in the […]

Airborne Methane Detection Gains Approval for Use in New Mexico

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(Bridger Photonics, 16.Mar.2022) — Bridger Photonics‘ aerial Gas Mapping LiDARℱ has been approved for use as an advanced leak detection and repair monitoring technology by New Mexico’s Energy, Minerals and Natural Resourced Department (“EMNRD”) for its ALARM credit program. With EMNRD’s approval, oil and gas operators in New Mexico can now use the advanced methane detection […]

LongPath Technologies Advances DOE-Funded Methane Mitigation

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(LongPath Technologies, 25.Jan.2022) — LongPath Technologies, Inc. is advancing its groundbreaking Basin-SCAN continuous methane monitoring and abatement technology across the Texas and New Mexico Permian Basin oil and gas fields. A year after winning a $5mn US Department of Energy (DOE) award, roughly 180 sq. mi. of the Permian Basin are being monitored […]

Exxon Backs The Global Methane Pledge

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(Exxon, 26.Oct.2021) — In September, the U.S. and European Union announced a Global Methane Pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030. More than 30 nations have now joined the Pledge, and more could be announced at the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. ExxonMobil […]

Oil Price Windfall A ‘Golden Opportunity’

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(WoodMac, 19.Aug.2021) — Oil and gas companies must use the current cash flow windfall opportunity to speed up decarbonisation of their businesses, global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK) said in a report released today. Stakeholders are demanding greater accountability for carbon emissions along the value […]

Methane Fears Cloud Argentina’s Shale Oil And Gas Future

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(Financial Times, Benedict Mander, 23.Sep.2018) — Green energy groups say huge shale oil and gas reserve is leaking greenhouse gases. Jorge Daniel Taillant used a $100,000 infrared camera this year to investigate whether oil and gas installations in Vaca Muerta were leaking toxic gases. The grainy black-and-white thermal images that […]