Wyoming Natural Gas Company Targets Internal Emissions

Casper Star Tribune

December 16, 2022

Methane is a difficult pollutant for oil and gas operations to track.

The primary component of natural gas, and a greenhouse gas with dozens of times more warming power than carbon dioxide, methane can escape, undetected, into the atmosphere if there’s a leak anywhere between the wellhead and the consumer.

Several Wyoming natural gas producers have invested heavily in technologies intended to move the industry away from disputed estimates and toward hard data. They’ve partnered with researchers to test encouraging prototypes and sought external verification of their mitigation efforts.

PureWest Energy, which operates in Wyoming’s Pinedale and Jonah fields, turned to environmental analytics company Project Canary for that third-party approval.