Market forces halved methane emissions from Uinta Basin oil and gas wells; but that's not the whole story
Published Date: 11/16/2021
Source: phys.org
As important as emissions of the greenhouse gas methane are in the climate conversation, recently factoring prominently in the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow, researchers have painfully little long-term data on emissions from wells and other oil and gas infrastructure. That makes answering questions about the sources and magnitudes of emissions, as well as year-to-year trends across an entire production region, difficult.