Think about oil and gas companies and climate change and chances are you’ll think dark thoughts. It’s true that Exxon Mobil had remarkably detailed knowledge of global warming in the 1970s. Some seeded doubt by funding climate-denier organizations and scientists and invented greenwashing. The current energy crisis has handed them windfall profits. In fact, BP ...
A recent McGill study published in Environmental Science and Technology finds that annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells in Canada and the U.S. have been greatly underestimated — by as much as 150 percent in Canada, and by 20 percent in the U.S. Indeed, the research suggests that methane gas emissions from ...
A new study by researchers at Duke University and RTI International finds that reusing oilfield water that’s been mixed with surface water for irrigation in the Cawelo Water District of California’s Kern County does not pose major health risks, as some opponents of the practice have feared. Avner Vengosh, professor of water quality and geochemistry ...
In a 600-ft-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of NJIT researchers is conducting the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed to following the drilling rig’s explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Led ...
The Internet of Things, or IoT, is becoming the latest game-changer in the oil and gas industries. For those unaware, the IoT is a system connected by sensors and controllers to help oil and gas companies monitor, collect, and then analyze their machinery accurately. These findings can lead to considerable savings in production loss and ...
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