Landfill gas: rags to riches?
Methane emissions from landfills account for 2% of global CO2e. c70% of these emissions could easily be abated for c$5/ton, simply by capturing and flaring the methane. Going further, low…
Flare gas capture: the economics?
…capturing and commercialising associated gas rather than flaring it. Economics are more challenging at smaller pads, remote pads and for wet or contaminated gas. Economics are highly variable, site-by-site, as…
Should a shale rig switch to gas-fuel?
…rig count to run on gas would only absorb c100mmcfd: not much of a dent in c1bcfd of flaring, as 2020 gas bottlenecks bite. This model shows all our workings….
Oil industry CO2 per barrel?
We have constructed a simple model to estimate the CO2 emissions of commercialising an oil resource, as a function of a dozen input variables: such as flaring, methane leakage, gravity,…
Efficient frontiers: improvements from a CO2 price within oil and gas?
…CO2 price, and leading companies are identified based on reviewing 1,500 Western patents on pages 6-9. The opportunity to eliminate flaring fully from the US with a CO2 price below…
What oil price is best for energy transition?
…industrial efficiency, flaring reductions, CO2 sequestration and new energy R&D. This 15-page note looks line by line through our models. We find stable, $60/bbl oil is ‘best’ for the transition….
Landfill gas: rags to riches?
Methane emissions from landfills account for 2% of global CO2e. c70% of these emissions could easily be abated for c$5/ton, simply by capturing and flaring the methane. Going further, low…
Methane emissions from pneumatic devices: by operator, by basin?
…of US oil and gas producers is aggregated by basin, by producer and by acreage position here. Another large source of methane leaks is flaring, covered in our note here….
Energy transition: distorted by politics?
…is despite many OPEC countries – Iraq, Nigeria, Venezuela – having much higher levels of flaring, methane leaks and CO2 emissions than US producers (data below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/oil-industry-co2-per-barrel/ (3) Another of…
Oil Sands CO2 Intensity
…methane leaks, flaring, et al; based on real-world data. A CO2 curve can also be derived from the data, ranking c2.5Mbpd of production across Alberta, in order to compare different…