Global Flaring Intensity by Country
…methane slip. Industry leading countries, with the lowest flaring include Saudi Arabia and the US. Saudi Arabia has flared 0.02 mcf/bbl over the past half-decade. The US has flared 0.07…
Flaring reduction: screen of service and equipment companies?
This data-file is a screen of companies that reduce gas flaring emissions, either by avoiding routine flaring directly, or by reducing the ESG impacts of unavoidable flaring. The landscape is…
Flare gas capture: the economics?
c150bcm of gas was flared globally in 2019, including 15bcm in the United States, which emitted 30MT of CO2-equivalents. This data-file simplifies the economics of flare gas capture, by gathering…
Flaring reduction: fire extinguishers?
…biggest challenge is to mitigate flaring outside of the US, Canada and Europe, which themselves account for 8% of global flaring, and <5% of the global CO2e from flaring. Clearly…
US CO2 and Methane Intensity by Basin
…here (chart below). The main reasons are methane leaks and flaring. The mean average asset in our sample has a methane leakage rate of 0.21%, and a flaring intensity of…
Methane slip: how much gas evades combustion?
…that methane escapes the flare, or worse, that the flare is blown out, like a kind of environmentally unfortunate birthday cake. Overall the data suggest that reducing flaring (e.g., via…
Flaring reduction: fire extinguishers?
Controversies over oil industry flaring are re-accelerating, especially due to the methane slip from flares, now feared as high as 8% globally. The skew entails that more CO2e could be…
CO2 intensity of shale: breakdown by category?
The CO2 intensity of shale oil averages 25kg/bbl, on a Scope 1&2 basis, of which 60% is from gas flaring and methane leaks. This model disaggregates CO2 emissions of shale…
Landfill gas: rags to riches?
…genuinely incremental. They may simply offtake methane that was being captured anyway or could have been flared at vastly lower cost. This challenge is explored on pages 18-19. Will subsidies…
The laws of thermodynamics: what role in the energy transition?
…natural gas flaring, which ran at 122bcm in 2019. To all intents and purposes the useful energy in the gas is being destroyed, as the gas is simply wasted. Again,…