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One US Oil Field a Key Culprit In Global Ethane Gas Increase
An anonymous reader writes: According to scientists, a single U.S. shale oil field is responsible for much of the past decade's increase in global atmospheric levels of ethane, a gas that can damage air quality and impact climate. The Bakken Formation, an oil and gas field in North Dakota and Montana is spewing nearly 2% of the globe's ethane. That translates to about 250,000 tons each year. "Two percent might not sound like a lot, but the emissions we observed in this single region are 10 to 100 times larger than reported in inventories. They directly impact air quality across North America. And they're sufficient to explain much of the global shift in ethane concentrations," said Eric Kort, U-M assistant professor of climate and space sciences and engineering.The Washington Post has more details (paywalled; alternatively you can read this Gizmodo report)
Happens every year between March until August.
I thought the idea was to get to the gas to burn it, not to just spew it into the air?
Instead of complaining go get a chmistry book and make a big fucking machine that sucks air and spits air without... clorine? no, I mean gas methane. Or startin making the sound of farts with your mouth and put a big fart joke beside your boss.
Deport all the illegals, gang bangers, druggies, and welfare leeches to the third world where they belong, let only productive people live in the United States.
Make America great again. Basically like it was in the 1950s
Seriously, who the hell cares? Stop writing article about this crap. It's always dodgy science, always trying to push an agenda, and isn't technology related.
I call BS. Like most of the other Global Warming, (I mean Climate Change) claims.
Oh yeah, it's not slamming nuclear power...
who make it 10,000% harder to lay the pipelines required to collect and harvest the gas. This resulted in the producers taking the option to flare the gas off. It's a valuable product, but harvest made uneconomical by stupid lawmakers.
I''m sure it's coincidence that this is about the single largest expansion of oil reserves in what the last 50+ years, and is the USs trump card in energy independence from the Middle East?
Yeah, complete coincidence.
-Styopa
...but 100 parts per billion is pretty much business as usual in the big Californian cities.
And 50 ppb is what the best-ranked ones produce.
Before you complain about the chemical being ethane, note that ethane + air + sunlight = ozone.
Looks like the Church of Climatology is jealous of the levels of esteem & high regard held for the Church of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church, and are exerting maximum effort towards correcting that discrepancy.
Can't fault the CoC for lack of effort in that regard.
The Church of Climatology: The US Progressive/Liberal version of the bastard-child of the Westboro Baptist Church and the Church of Scientology if they bred. Even the tactics they use against their critics are nearly indistinguishable.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Really? Source please.
Bleep happens. Live and Learn to avoid it again.
Table-ized A.I.
Thanks for the slap!
Ozone from this source is clearly not something to worry about. There may be other reasons for worrying about ethane release, but this certainly isn't it.
http://www.ozoneapplications.c...
offers some information about the use of Ozone as a pesticide for crops!
I have to blame online advertising.
If there is some kind of huge ethane leak from the Bakken, you can be sure there is a huge methane leak as well.
Ethane makes up 10% mole percent of LNG at most, the other 90% is mostly methane.
Methane is a very significant global warming gas, more so than CO2, although its half-life in the atmosphere is much shorter than CO2.
Washington Post is completely readable for me. Maybe only paywalled in the US?
Ice age averted!
http://harpers.org/archive/1958/09/the-coming-ice-age/
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/01/06/researchers-predict-that-a-mini-ice-age-is-coming-very-soon/
http://www.nationalcenter.org/Time-Ice-Age-06-24-1974-Sm.jpg
Hardly a field. It covers two Northern US States. That is why it's named the Bakken Formation.
Its friday night, can't one of you americans just crack a few beers, jump in the truck, drive over and shut it off?
Thanks in advanced.
-The World
Before this field could go into production, and EIS/EIR needed to be reviewed and presented to those making the decisions. My Questions? What level of emissions did the EIS/EIR review project? Where they accurate at the time, based on best science? Where there remedial or mitigation efforts proposed. The responsible agency, if they find out that facts presented were erroneous, even if the errors were not the fault of the sponsor/developer may decide it would be in the best interest to shut own production until adequate controls are in place to mitigate these emissions, I tried to find the EIR/EIS but to no avail.
Most likely if the Gov tries to intercede we ill see lawsuits that mat drag on for years, and probably allow the field to produce during that time.
lol. Seriously? Welcome to global warming season where they say nonsense every year.
You're going to be in for a shock when you learn about there being people working in the construction field all over the world. ;-)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
that the U.S would point fingers about and demand fines citing violation of international laws and what not, had it been Russia, China, India, or any country in South America. But when they do it themselves...
Its all chinese faults.