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Satellites can now catch small but 'nefarious' methane emissions from offshore oil platforms

Por: The Advocate Business September 23, 2022

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Satellites now have the power to detect the small but all-too-common releases of a potent climate-warming pollutant from offshore oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.Environmental data company announced Thursday that it had detected the smallest offshore methane emission ever seen from space. The plume was spotted at a platform off the Louisiana coast last month.“These kinds of methane emissions fly beneath the radar because they’re... + full article



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