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Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector: Barriers to abatement and technologies for emission reductions

Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector: Barriers to abatement and technologies for emission reductions

Full Title:  Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector: Barriers to abatement and technologies for emission reductions
Author(s): N/A
Publisher(s): Clean Air Task Force
Publication Date: March 1, 2013
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Methane emissions persist throughout the world, including the United States, because of a number of barriers to emissions prevention or capture. These barriers, some real and some perceived, are described in terms of the author’s experience worldwide. The question, what can and should be done to mitigate methane emissions and the climate-forcing changes that methane is believed to cause in the atmosphere is addressed at the end with a number of conclusions about what creates these barriers and recommendations to overcome these barriers. The point is made in this paper that, like a clock spring, the worldwide economic and political structure is wound tight over the past century. Therefore, most of the recommendations will take time to sell, to implement, to perfect, to unwind those barriers against methane mitigation. The good news is that a program called the “Global Methane Initiative” has already attracted the membership of 39 countries in the world, representing virtually all of the Americas, Europe and Asia, but not yet significant participation in Africa or the Middle East. Worldwide cooperation is necessary, and has to be a prime objective of any strategy to mitigate methane emissions, and as the most powerful GHG over the next 20 years, impact climate change.

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