Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico give off much more methane emissions than official estimates, according to a study published Monday.
FILE - A man fishes near an oil drilling platform on May 8, 2020, in Port Aransas, Texas. Offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico are releasing far more climate-changing methane than official estimates show, according to a new study published Monday, April 3, 2023. climate-changing methane than official estimates show, according to a new study published Monday.
Reductions in both methane and carbon dioxide emissions are essential to lessen the future severity of climate change, the study notes. Eric A. Kort, a climate scientist at the University of Michigan and co-author of the study, said the majority of the methane emissions researchers found were wafting from oil and gas operations in shallow waters, where the oldest oil platforms are. The problem was most acute where energy companies are mostly going after oil and aren't that interested in the methane gas that lies underground with it, so simply release it into the air.
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