Posted on 09/08/2022 12:06:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos oil company acknowledged Thursday it released a huge plume of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Gulf of Mexico late last year.
A report published in June by Spanish university researchers in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters estimated that the leak contained about 40,000 tons of methane.
The article estimated that would be equivalent to releasing about 3.3 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The gas release came in December when one of the company’s oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico stopped flaring, or burning off oil well gases. The company, known as Pemex, claimed the gases escaped unburned for a few hours. Researchers said it happened over a period of over two weeks.
Petroleos Mexicanos acknowledged Thursday that the leak occurred accidentally after winds and rains extinguished flames meant to burn off the gas.
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What guy hasn’t released a huge methane plume?
Personally, I’m a big fan of carbon....
Must’ve been those breakfast tacos.
No one felt like lighting the pilot light
Too busy taking a siesta
They didn’t know that their gas flaring system was off for two weeks?
Nobody looked up?
Bean burritos will do that to you.
so basically Mexico farted.
Well it was Mexico and you know how Beans and Hot Peppers react!!
Methane breaks down really fast in the atmosphere, just sayin.
Well played sir!
As a greenhouse gas, methane has 23 times the potency of CO2. 40,000 tons of it would NOT be equivalent to 30 million tons of CO2.
Friggin’ lying misleadia.
Or even 3.3 million tons. More like 920,000 tons. Big deal.
40,000 tons of natural gas = 1.5 million cubic feet. At 1,015 BTU / cubic foot, that’s about 1 billion Btu. At $8/million BTU, that’s a cool $125 million belch.
Of course, that would have been flared off and not recoverable, so that calculation isn’t worth much.
I’ve never understood why NG fields have to flare off so much gas.
Morons:
CH4 (Lighter than O2)
CO2 (Heavier than O2)
CO2 is not a greenhouse gas.
Thank you. It is important to mock our opponents.
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