Tag: Methane Emissions
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ADIPEC 2026: Monitoring Methane as Oil and Gas Supply Expands
As governments and operators consider how to meet rising demand for reliable, affordable energy, Ipieca CEO Brian Sullivan used his ADIPEC 2026 article Energy Addition and Climate Realism: Governing Supply Growth, Resilience and Emissions to ask how that growth should be managed. Population growth, urbanization, industrial development, and digitalization are increasing demand. At the same…
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From Detecting Methane Plumes to Verifying Mitigation: How Satellites Can Advance the Governance Loop for Oil and Gas Methane Emissions
In July 2026, UN News reported that UNEP’s Methane Alert and Response System had issued more than 5,000 alerts concerning major methane emission events across 33 countries. UNEP separately reported that, as of April 2026, IMEO had documented more than 40 mitigation cases. At the time, approximately 13% of MARS alerts had received a recorded…