Exxon extends Permian methane monitoring from its new Houston-area base
to track methane leaks in West Texas from inside a control room at its soon-to-be-headquarters in Spring.
The $20 million effort is part of the the company’s pledge to reduce emissions at its sites in the Permian Basin to net zero by 2030 as the world works to fight climate change. The technology tested in Texas is a pilot that the company plans to launch globally.The system is set up like a smoke detector, said Stefanie Asher, the company's Permian realization manager.
“It's a bit of a game changer,” Asher said. “What you want to be able to do is have a continuous system where you can see where your events are occurring, knowing that those events are transient, and intermittent.”Research shows natural gas gathering lines are a bigger source of emissions than regulators thought
“As soon as the system resets, then that event is over with so it's difficult to find emissions,” she said. “In fact, it's almost a little bit like ghost hunting.”
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