Study: Methane from Gulf of Mexico oil higher than estimates
far moreUsing data collected from aircraft in part, climate scientists found the additional methane coming from oil and gas platforms in shallow waters of the Gulf region raises their carbon intensity — the amount of climate-changing gas per unit of energy in the fuel — to twice as much as estimated by U.S. agencies like the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The study is published in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“You don’t have to travel halfway around the world to find unusually high emissions in oil and gas fields,” said Rob Jackson, a Stanford University climate scientist who was not involved in the study."It’s happening right here in our backyards.
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