A pneumatic controller. Credit: Miguel Otárola/CPR News
Yesterday EQT announced it had completed spending $28 million to dump ALL of its natural gas-powered pneumatic devices--almost 9,000 of them. The pneumatic controllers were replaced or retrofitted on all EQT production locations and compressor stations. At EQT, natural gas-powered pneumatic devices were the source of 39% of the company's 2021 Production segment Scope 1 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Those stray emissions are now eliminated. So what are pneumatic devices, and why is this a big deal?
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