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Environmental Partnership Annual Report

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The Environmental Partnership has released its fourth annual report highlighting the industry’s efforts to reduce methane emissions and improve environmental performance across the natural gas and oil industry.

The new report revealed continued progress across all six environmental performance programs – including reducing flaring, replacing gas-driven pneumatic controllers with low or zero-emitting devices and reducing leak occurrence rates to 0.05 percent among the nearly 100,000 sites surveyed – even as the program continued to grow its participation.

Since launching in 2017, the partnership has quadrupled in size, now representing 100 companies that make up 70 percent of the US onshore natural gas and oil industry, reflecting the growing commitment to driving innovation, sharing best practices and increasing transparency to reduce methane emissions in every major US basin.

Cole Ramsey, vice president of upstream policy at the American Petroleum Institute, said: “The Environmental Partnership’s ability to bring together 100 companies with the shared goal of improving environmental performance demonstrates the commitment of this industry to tackle the climate challenge head-on.

“Reducing flare intensity by nearly 50 percent over the past year is just one way participating companies are acting to reduce emissions intensity. Much of the growth we are seeing is driven by industry taking action to employ cutting-edge technologies, including remote monitoring with satellites, laser-based aerial surveys and continuous monitoring to detect and reduce methane emissions.”

Vanessa Ryan, chair of The Environmental Partnership and manager of carbon and climate policy for Chevron, said: “As The Environmental Partnership has grown, so has the community of participants upon which we rely, and we continue to be thankful for the many women and men who are working every day to reliably power our lives while reducing environmental impacts.

“We look forward to what the next five years will bring and are confident that the industry will meet tomorrow’s challenges.”

Matthew Todd, director of The Environmental Partnership, said: “The Environmental Partnership has been, and will continue to be, integral to developing energy and environmental solutions, and we are proud of how the program has grown, both in size of our participating companies and in the scope of our mission.

“As our industry continues to drive solutions to better detect and reduce methane emissions, The Environmental Partnership will continue to serve as a springboard to advance technological innovation, cultivate best practices and take action to improve our environmental performance.”

For more information visit theenvironmentalpartnership.org