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☆ A methane well that leaked for 6 months has released a year's worth of emissions for 791,000 cars: report
  + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A well in Kazakhstan leaked 140,000 tons of methane into Earth's atmosphere in 2023, scientists say. Methane is estimated to be about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide in global warming. AdvertisementThat amount of methane is equal to emissions from 791,318 gas-powered cars being driven over a year, per the Environment Protection Agency website's calculators. They detected 115 methane emissions over the six months of the Kazakh leak, their analysis said. AdvertisementBuzachi Neft, the operator of the well, denied to the outlet that such a vast amount of methane was leaked, saying only a "negligible" amount was released.
Persons: it's, Luis Guanter, Buzachi Neft Organizations: Service, BBC, Environment Protection Agency, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Business Locations: Kazakhstan, France, Spain, Netherlands, Europe
☆ Mexico's Pemex had a plan to fix its flaring problem, but abandoned it
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +10 min
The broken commitment, which has not previously been reported, highlights the struggles of Mexico's oil regulator to rein in Pemex, a powerful state monopoly that is always closely connected to the government. The oil company has in recent quarterly reports stressed it was making efforts to clean up its operations and bring down flaring and other waste. Earlier this year, under increasing international criticism, Lopez Obrador said Pemex would invest $2 billion to improve infrastructure to reduce flaring and methane emissions. The regulator said in 2020 the company wasted 37.7% of the gas from Ku alone through flaring, venting or otherwise. One source said the regulator fined Pemex again for recurrence in 2021 but the oil company started legal proceedings to annul the fine, which are still pending.
☆ Mexican senator files criminal complaint against energy minister, Pemex CEO over methane leak
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Opposition Senator Xochitl Galvez, who sits on committees for the environment and energy, filed the complaint to the attorney general's office against Energy Minister Rocio Nahle, Pemex CEO Octavio Romero and Angel Carrizales, who heads environmental regulator ASEA. Reuters sought comment from Nahle, Romero and Carrizales through the press teams at the energy ministry, Pemex and the regulator. Reuters also contacted Nahle, Romero and Carrizales via email and Twitter without response. The methane leak at the Zaap-C platform, which first appeared on Dec. 8, was uncovered by researchers led by Itziar Irakulis Loitxate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The criminal complaint filed by Galvez on Wednesday is the third complaint the senator has submitted in recent weeks after Reuters reports on Pemex methane leaks.
☆ EXCLUSIVE Mexican regulator has no record of Pemex reporting methane leak, documents show
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
A fuel burner is seen at Mexico's state-run oil monopoly Pemex platform "Ku Maloob Zaap" in the Northeast Marine Region of Pemex Exploration and Production in the Bay of Campeche April 19, 2013. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Garcia/File PhotoMEXICO CITY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Mexico's environmental regulator has no records of state oil company Pemex reporting a methane leak last December at the country's top oil field, according to the regulator's response to a freedom of information request filed by Reuters. The methane leak at the Zaap-C platform, which first appeared on Dec. 8, was uncovered by researchers led by Itziar Irakulis Loitxate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The methane leak from the Zaap-C platform was not among the 5,235 incidents ASEA disclosed to Reuters in its response. Pemex, the world's most indebted oil company, has acknowledged in public statements the challenges it faces in maintaining and repairing ailing infrastructure.
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