Methane leaks from dormant oil and gas wells in Canada are seven times worse than thought, McGill study suggests
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Shocking. /s
I think there was an estimate of the warming effects of natural gas including methane leaks which showed it being worse than coal.
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I’m not an oil guy, but since methane has its uses, would there not be a way to capture this gas and sell it?
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“Than thought”
Man, I wonder where that “thought” came from
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I’m not an oil guy, but since methane has its uses, would there not be a way to capture this gas and sell it?
It’s a good bit of infrastructure to capture, compress, transport, and sell methane on the market. Since these are “non-producing” wells, I would assume that the leakage is (relatively) low and maybe not be worth the cost of all the setup and maintenance.
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Looks like the cover to Supermassive Black Hole
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The page seems down. Could someone forward the study to me
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The page seems down. Could someone forward the study to me
Seems to work for me, but here’s the direct link for the study https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c05602
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A more correct title would be “7 to 8 times more than originally reported”
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Seems to work for me, but here’s the direct link for the study https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c05602
Turns out that all the site for McGill don’t want me to enter
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It’s a good bit of infrastructure to capture, compress, transport, and sell methane on the market. Since these are “non-producing” wells, I would assume that the leakage is (relatively) low and maybe not be worth the cost of all the setup and maintenance.
Just put a methane generator on them and sell the power onto the grid. Its what many landdfills do with their methane.
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Just put a methane generator on them and sell the power onto the grid. Its what many landdfills do with their methane.
Lots of industries just flare it when the winds are blowing the right way, ie: downwind of any Environment Canada sensors.
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Who is going to prison over that?
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If only those companies were wealthy enough to do something about it. I guess our only choice is let the tazpayer handle it.
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Lots of industries just flare it when the winds are blowing the right way, ie: downwind of any Environment Canada sensors.
Flaring is much better than just letting the methane escape so it would be a better solution than doing nothing and would be a great stepping stone to a more permanent option. Flaring would be much cheaper than a methane generator or capture device.
