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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6h

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It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive.

Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6h

The oil and gas industry in the petrostates like TX, NM and ND like to talk about how the taxes from the industry fund so much new infrastructure.

Maybe they should chip in a little more?

brown water fill the bathtub in a Sweeny home.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6h

www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels...

E.U. Methane Rules a Problem for U.S. LNG Producer

European Union (E.U.) officials are upholding a first-of-its-kind methane emissions regulation on imported fuels, creating significant uncertainty for the U.S. natural…

www.instituteforenergyresearch.org

Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6h

The methane emissions are so bad with LNG that the industry leaders and the US secretary of energy readily admit that if the regulations remain, LNG can't comply.

Which is how regulations are supposed to work. They regulate pollution. The LNG industry is admitting their intention to pollute.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6h

The EU methane regulations are not some gold standard but at least acknowledge the problem.

The LNG industry, with its big methane emissions problem, wants them gone.

headline: woodside CEO O'neill slams 'industry-killing' EU regulations

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

As we face a global methane emergency that is accelerating the climate crisis, removing regulations designed to address this situation is the opposite of what we need to do.

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

"According to Secretary Wright, there was agreement on both sides that the regulations as they are now written mean no more U.S. LNG would flow into Europe."

The point of regulations to limit methane emissions is to not allow dirty LNG into Europe. So, these regulations would be working.

E.U. Methane Rules a Problem for U.S. LNG Producer

European Union (E.U.) officials are upholding a first-of-its-kind methane emissions regulation on imported fuels, creating significant uncertainty for the U.S. natural…

www.instituteforenergyresearch.org

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 1d

“The water situation in South Texas is about as dire as I’ve ever seen it,” said Mike Howard, chief executive of Howard Energy Partners, a private energy company that owns several facilities in Corpus Christi. “It has all the energy in the world, and it doesn’t have water.”

Exxon and Tesla.

This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.

A severe drought has Corpus Christi scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla that have invested billions of dollars in the region.

www.wsj.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 1d

This should be a headline around the world.

“If they follow the behavior of other global seep systems, there is the potential for rapid transfer of methane to the atmosphere from a source that is not currently factored into future climate change scenarios.”

We will regret ignoring this.

Discovery made on the Antarctic seabed has scientists very alarmed

Scientists found patches on the Antarctic seafloor called "seeps" where fluid and gas move up through sediments and into the water.

www.earth.com

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1d

UPDATE – New Zealand has weakened its 2050 target for reducing methane from livestock to be more in line with the “no additional warming” approach used in GWP*

✍️ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief

A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.

www.carbonbrief.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

There is a lot of this message lately about the "surprising drop in Permian Basin emissions." We will be providing evidence to debunk this in the near future.

Interestingly it is in the same column where they say the EU has to get rid of its methane regs....because US LNG emissions are too high. 🤔

What’s driving the ‘surprising’ drop in Permian Basin emissions?

Also in today’s newsletter, the Trump administration presses Brussels over methane regulation

www.ft.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/35-gas-turbi...

35 gas turbines, no permits: Elon Musk’s dirty xAI secret

In Memphis, AI’s environmental impact is invisible, until you turn on the camera

www.climateandcapitalmedia.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

This is what was done in Memphis for xAI. Older, inefficient ands very polluting turbines.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSWg...

xAI Colossus Data Center Memphis Tennessee 05/13/2025

YouTube video by Oilfield Witness

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

This article is troubling as it does not address the climate and air pollution implications of this approach.

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

(paywalled)

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

heatmap.news

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Andy Gheorghiu @andygheorghiu.bsky.social · 4d

Bravo @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @marossefcovic.bsky.social @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu!
Hold your line against fossil fascists!
www.euronews.com/business/202...
@juttapaulus.bsky.social @marietouss1.bsky.social @tadziomueller.bsky.social @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social @caneurope.org

'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects US pressure on climate rules

In response to US demands to roll back the EU's environmental legislation, the European Commission defended its autonomous power to adopt laws.

www.euronews.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 4d

The more we learn, the worse it gets.

Methane Emissions from Crude Oil and Gas Supply Chains Significantly Underestimated - Renewable Carbon News

A new study, commissioned by the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) and carried out by LCA experts from nova-Institute, visualises that recent updates to leading life cycle inventory (LCI) databases, i...

renewable-carbon.eu

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 5d

Midland Texas is at the center of the Texas oil and gas boom. They love the oil industry money there but also understand what that means. So....

Midland Texas also sued to try to stop oil wastewater from being injected near their water sources.

Midland fights disposal of oilfield wastewater near its drinking supply

As oil and gas companies struggle to dispose of their wastewater in the Permian Basin, the city of Midland is challenging applications for disposal wells near one of its drinking water sources.

www.texastribune.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 5d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddOp...

Dr. Robert Howarth explaining that LNG is worse than coal when considering emissions.

YouTube video by Oilfield Witness

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 5d

We agree with the main conclusion of this column.

We do not agree with the claim that LNG is cleaner than coal as we are followers of science.

Liquified Natural Gas Risks Becoming a Bridge to Nowhere

The conventional wisdom says liquified natural gas is the future of energy — bridging the gap between the world abandoning fossil fuels and renewable supplies coming online. But that rosy outlook face...

www.bloomberg.com

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 6d

As the oil industry and its many willing partners push the idea that they can fix the methane problem, reality tells a different story.

Incremental changes being pushed by these actors are a recipe for increased methane and a much warmer future.

Let's switch to clean energy instead.

Global methane levels continue rising as planet heats up - University of Birmingham

Asia and the developing Pacific region are emerging as the largest contributors to global methane emissions, due to industrialisation and population growth.

www.birmingham.ac.uk

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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 8d

The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, according to a new report.

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

insideclimatenews.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 7d

“We found significant contamination,” Stolz said. “Essentially half of the people in our study had bad water.” Two of the wells registered “explosive levels of methane,” he said. “The homeowners had no clue it was that bad.”

Scientists Find Evidence that a Pennsylvania Town’s Water Was Contaminated by Fracking - Inside Climate News

Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.

insideclimatenews.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 8d

This is the CEO of Shell.

"Sawan described LNG as one of the most effective tools for lowering global emissions"

This is completely detached from science and reality.

Shell positions LNG as key focus for the next decade

CEO Wael Sawan sees surging demand for liquefied natural gas as key to cutting global emissions and boosting performance. | MobilityPlaza

www.mobilityplaza.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 8d

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Trump Says America’s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries’. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.

The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.

www.propublica.org

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Oilfield Witness @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social · 8d

@txsharon.bsky.social explains in this piece why the oil and gas industry wants you to believe the problem is leaks but the reality is most of the methane is intentionally released.

101: Methane emissions. Unintentional Leaks vs Intentional Releases - Oilfield Witness

Unintentional leaks of methane are the side show. Intentional releases, required by design, are the problem. Analysis of industry’s own data, which we know is underreported*, shows that only 6% of the...

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