Methane emissions in oil and gas installations is a major problem associated with global warming as it is a tremendously potent greenhouse gas, having a “global warming potential” at least 84 times that of carbon dioxide over a 20-year time frame.
8Substantial quantities of carbon dioxide can also be generated by the burning off (“flaring”) of methane gas associated with oil production,
8Already US regulations adopted in 2012 require green completions at newly completed gas wells to maximize capture of gas, and avoid flaring or venting.
8Technical experts generally agree that cost-effective emission reduction measures are currently available to substantially reduce methane and other air emissions.
8India's methane emissions are not properly tracked and the next effort of the government should be to evolve transparent benchmarks for emission control.
8A set of parameters can surely be evolved, including reductions in NOX and VOC emissions from emission control efforts.
8Other measures to take on emissions could well include converting a percentage of corporate vehicle fleets to lower emission fuels; bringing down methane emission rates from drilling, completion, and production operations; replacement of a certain targeted percentage or number of high-bleed valves replaced with lower emission valves; and defining the scope and frequency of leak detection and monitoring exercises.
8The International Energy Agency has identified minimizing methane emissions from upstream oil and gas production as one of four key global greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities, noting that reductions in such emissions could account for nearly 15% of the total greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2020 to keep the world below a 2°C increase in temperature, a level above which catastrophic global impacts are predicted to occur
8How far down this road has Cairn gone in this direction in Barmer is not known yet.
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8Substantial quantities of carbon dioxide can also be generated by the burning off (“flaring”) of methane gas associated with oil production,
8Already US regulations adopted in 2012 require green completions at newly completed gas wells to maximize capture of gas, and avoid flaring or venting.
8Technical experts generally agree that cost-effective emission reduction measures are currently available to substantially reduce methane and other air emissions.
8India's methane emissions are not properly tracked and the next effort of the government should be to evolve transparent benchmarks for emission control.
8A set of parameters can surely be evolved, including reductions in NOX and VOC emissions from emission control efforts.
8Other measures to take on emissions could well include converting a percentage of corporate vehicle fleets to lower emission fuels; bringing down methane emission rates from drilling, completion, and production operations; replacement of a certain targeted percentage or number of high-bleed valves replaced with lower emission valves; and defining the scope and frequency of leak detection and monitoring exercises.
8The International Energy Agency has identified minimizing methane emissions from upstream oil and gas production as one of four key global greenhouse gas mitigation opportunities, noting that reductions in such emissions could account for nearly 15% of the total greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2020 to keep the world below a 2°C increase in temperature, a level above which catastrophic global impacts are predicted to occur
8How far down this road has Cairn gone in this direction in Barmer is not known yet.
For more details visit indianpetroplus.com
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