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Laser gas detection success for Anglian Water Services
Anglian Water Services (AWS) wanted to quantify methane emissions from their wastewater treatment processes. As these are less well understood and less well defined than indirect carbon emissions associated with electricity use, they set up a project to locate and quantify emissions from the processes at a wastewater treatment works. This was led by the in-house Innovation Team which undertakes ...
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enitial chooses TDL-500 for emissions monitoring
As one of the UK's leading independent providers of emission and pollution monitoring, control and management services, enitial required a portable methane detector that would be efficient at recording and storing very detailed data. Following an increasing demand for emissions mapping surveys to be carried out from their customers, particularly those concerned with the anticipated change to ...
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Detecting Gas Compressor Fugitive Methane Leaks for Safety & Environmental Compliance to Avoid Fines
Engineers monitoring natural gas compressors for dry seal leaks of toxic, combustible methane (CH4) gas will find the ST75 Series Thermal Mass Flow Meter from Fluid Components International (FCI) provides them with precision CH4 gas monitoring to detect hazardous, non-compliant and costly gas leaks. The compact ST75 Series Air/Gas Flow Meters offer accurate, repeatable CH4 measurement to meet ...
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Study on Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Systems Indicates New Priorities
A new study published in the journal Science says that the total impact of switching to natural gas depends heavily on leakage of methane (CH4) during the natural gas life cycle, and suggests that more can be done to reduce methane emissions and to improve measurement tools which help inform policy choices. Published in the February 14 issue of Science, the study, “Methane Leaks from North ...
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EPA hears widely different views on methane emission threat
Over-regulating methane emissions could discourage the use of environment-friendly natural gas, an energy industry representative told the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday. However, a former Colorado air quality official countered that such controls would be a cost-effective way to fight climate change. The EPA heard radically different views as it opened public hearings in Denver ...
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The gas industry`s future looks bright over next five years, according to IEA analysis
Strong demand growth from China, greater industrial demand, and rising supplies from the United States, will transform global natural gas markets over the next five years according to the International Energy Agency's latest market forecast. Global gas demand will grow at an average rate of 1.6% a year, reaching just over 4,100 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2023, up from 3,740 bcm in 2017, ...
By Siemens AG
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How Kairos Aerial Surveys Helped Triple Crown Sharply Reduce Methane Emissions
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative shared a case study about our successful partnership with Triple Crown Resources, hosted on their website and shared below. “There are 10 or 15 different reasons why businesses should detect and fix methane leaks, but one that even the most skeptical exploration and production (E&P) companies can agree with is that it can be profitable. This is the ...
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Gas leaks fuel climate change
A leading authority on the effects of methane in the atmosphere has called for a new drive to cut gas leaks from pipelines and wells. Euan Nisbet, professor of Earth sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, says that ever more sensitive detection equipment using global satellite positioning systems has made it relatively cheap and quick to check where leaks are coming from. ...
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US aims to cut methane emissions by nearly half
The Obama administration is putting the energy industry on notice that it intends to curb methane emissions by nearly half through regulations affecting oil and gas production. A broad, preliminary plan - expected to be unveiled this week - aims to cut emissions 40-45 percent by 2025 compared with 2012 levels. Reductions are to come from a mix of voluntary steps by industry and regulations from ...
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How to turn State of the Union address commitments into real climate action
President Obama made it abundantly clear during the State of the Union address last night that he will direct his Administration to take on climate change. The president reiterated the urgency for action, citing climate impacts we’re already seeing like record high temperatures, heat waves, drought, wildfires, and floods. “We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most ...
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EPA Can Quickly Cut Dangerous Methane Pollution from Oil and Gas Industry in Half
A new report from leading climate advocates today (Nov 21, 2014) shows how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can cut climate warming methane pollution in half, while dramatically reducing harmful, wasteful air pollution from the oil and gas industry at the same time, by issuing federal standards for methane pollution based on available, low-cost technologies and practices. The oil ...
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EPA Meeting With Other Agencies on Ways to Cut Methane Emissions, Senate Panel Told
The Environmental Protection Agency has been meeting with other agencies in recent months to find ways to cut methane emissions, including actions they could take using existing regulatory authority, an EPA official told a Senate subcommittee Nov. 5. President Barack Obama's June climate plan established the interagency panel to address methane, according to Sarah Dunham, director of the EPA's ...
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Obama’s Plan to Curb Methane Emissions is a Big Step in Climate Fight
The White House’s Interagency Methane Strategy to curb the emissions of this powerful greenhouse gas, released today (March 28, 2014), is a big step in the right direction, the Natural Resources Defense Council said. The following is a statement by David Doniger, director of the Climate and Clean Air Program at NRDC: “Methane is a potent heat-trapping pollutant, and we've long ...
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Obama presents climate change as hazard to your health
President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment, but also to their health. Obama on Tuesday was to announce a series of steps that private entities like Google and Microsoft are taking to better prepare the nation's health systems for the inevitable effects of a warmer, more erratic climate. He was to be joined at Howard University ...
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Kairos Aerospace Supports Global Initiative to Eliminate
Kairos Aerospace, the leading oil and gas industry partner for methane reduction and member of The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) Climate Investments portfolio since 2018, today announced its support of the OGCI Aiming for Zero Methane Emissions Initiative. The initiative joins leading global oil and gas companies to establish an all-in approach that targets methane emissions through a ...
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New study and discussion on reducing methane emissions from natural gas
WRI to release new working paper, “Clearing the Air: Reducing Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Natural Gas Systems.” The rapid expansion of unconventional natural gas has reshaped the U.S. energy picture through increased production and reduced price. The shale gas boom has also ignited vigorous debates around its environmental impacts. WRI’s new study, ...
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Where Does it Go? New Method Evaluates Fate of Methane Released into Streams
A new method for determining stream methane emissions at the watershed scale has been developed by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Utah, North Carolina State University and Ohio State University. Methane has a global greenhouse gas warming potential of up to 28 – 36 times that of carbon dioxide, and can be discharged into streams either naturally or as a ...
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Clarke Valve Shatters Benchmarks for Reliability and Fugitive Emissions Under ISO 15848-1:2015, with CC3 and AM Certifications
The world’s most compact, efficient, and environmentally responsible control valve has achieved yet another performance benchmark, completing over 100,000 mechanical cycles while consistently surpassing the most stringent standard for fugitive methane emissions Clarke Valve, an OGCI Climate Investments portfolio company, announced today that its proprietary Shutter Valve has successfully ...
By Siemens AG
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Oil’s methane emissions higher than feared
Global methane emissions from oil production between 1980 and 2012 were far higher than previously thought – in some cases, as much as double the amount previously estimated, according to a new scientific study The reason for the discrepancy is simple. The author of the study − which also includes emissions of another gas, ethane − says it is the first to take into account ...
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Second phase of Oil and Gas Methane Partnership launched
Over 62 oil and gas companies have signed up to the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), which aims to reduce the industry’s methane emissions by 45% by 2025, and between 60 and 75% by 2030. OGMP 2.0, which builds on the original framework launched at the UN Climate Summit in 2014, provides a reporting framework for methane emissions in the sector, that will make it easier to ...
By IPIECA
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