Gas Companies Are Abandoning Their Wells, Leaving Them to Leak Methane Forever

Identifying leaking well sites is getting a little more attention in the industry than the article suggests, at least for active wells. See, e.g., Kairos Aerospace’s work in the Permian Basin. You can get a peek at what they’re doing in Matt Gordon’s PyCon talk: https://youtu.be/WQkM3ppuhWo

That would perfectly explains why California has the 2nd largest man-made methane output in the nation.

Four-Corner, New Mexico seems to be #1.

This is from Bloomberg, so most people with tight controls on their information sources will multiply the information by zero first¹.

A more reliable source describing methane leaks in oil and gas: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-leaks-that-threaten-the-cle...

¹ i.e. your posterior after supplied by this information is equal to your prior