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Big Oil’s Pledge to Curb Methane Faces Test in Gulf of Thailand

bloomberg.com 2024/10/5

The UN’s IMEO has made a new request to two energy producers to halt emissions from a site that’s been observed releasing the greenhouse gas since 2013

Methane observed by satellite over the Gulf of Thailand in April 2023.
Methane observed by satellite over the Gulf of Thailand in April 2023. International Methane Emissions Observatory

A natural gas platform in the Gulf of Thailand has attracted a fresh warning over methane emissions first detected more than a decade ago, another test of global pledges to curb releases of the potent greenhouse gas.

Emissions from the site, operated by a joint venture between units of two state-backed energy companies — Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. and Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production Pcl — have been observed at least 60 times by satellite since 2013, and the owners were most recently urged in May to address the problem.

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