Low-producing oil and gas wells that account for just 6% of total U.S. production account for half of the methane emitted from all U.S. well sites, a new report showed on Wednesday.
The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to take a comprehensive look at the over 560,000 active "marginal" oil and gas wells across the United States that account for 80% of all well sites. It comes as the Environmental Protection Agency prepares to unveil new provisions for its methane regulation for the oil and gas sector that it introduced last November.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.
It shows that by excluding those wells from regulation, the EPA would overlook a huge source of methane. EPA spokesperson Nick Conger said the agency received the information contained in the report during the public comment period on the November proposal. Oil and gas industry groups had pressed the EPA to exclude smaller wells from the regulations, citing the sheer number of such wells and the costs of the monitoring and repairs.
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