MiQ & Highwood Release New Index to Measure O&G Methane Intensity

MiQ and Highwood Emissions Management (HEM) yesterday released the world's first "open-access, measurement-informed methane intensity index" for the U.S. natural gas sector. The MiQ-Highwood Index™ estimates (and the keyword there is ESTIMATES) a methane emissions intensity of 1% leakage from the production sector alone, and 2.2% leakage for the entire natural gas supply chain. Those numbers exceed current national averages suggested by the EPA's Greenhouse Gas Inventory and GREET natural gas pathway models. The aim of the new MiQ-Highwood Index is methane shaming--to shame producers and pipeline companies into spending gobs of money to prevent every last molecule of methane from "escaping" (like a fugitive) into Mom Earth's atmosphere.

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