As with many byproducts of industry, methane is often thrown away. Which means the oil and gas industry just dumps it into our atmosphere.
There were many alarming facts in the recent study âHigh rates of hydrogen sulfide emissions measured from marginal oil wells near Austin and San Antonio, Texas,â published in Environmental Research C...
"As the oil industry is motivated by profit, with no financial incentive to capture methane, such a solution is unlikely to happen."
New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction
What they do instead is say they are already clean, despite the evidence.
We use an OGI camera to show what this means as @txsharon.bsky.socialwww.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7q...
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness
We share daily news on methane which is a niche area but really shouldn't be. If we qualify, we would appreciate being on the list.
"I learned of Jeff Springman via a desperate call from Sharon Wilson, director of Oilfield Witness, a certified optical-gas-imaging thermographer who has spent years documenting the harms Texasâ oil-and-gas industry has wrought on the Texas environment and its own workforce."
We agree. Which is why we suggest a much wider use of OGI images showing the pollution.
YouTube video by Oilfield Witness