Qatar Energy’s Tie-Up Aiming For Zero Methane Emissions Initiative

Staff Writer

Friday, 01 July 2022

QatarEnergy, the world’s biggest producer of liquefied natural gas, has signed up to the Aiming for Zero Methane Emissions Initiative, which was founded in March and counts Saudi Aramco, BP, Chevron Corp. and Shell among its members, aiming to cut almost all methane emissions from their operations by 2030. Aiming for Zero was set up by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, an industry group focused on reducing the energy sector’s carbon footprint.

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Qatar Energy’s chief executive officer and energy minister Saad al-Kaabi ,said on Monday in a statement.“We are reaffirming Qatar’s priorities and commitments with regards to the climate change agenda.”

Attention is increasingly shifting to methane alongside carbon dioxide, as it locks in far more heat in the short term and has been leaking just as relentlessly. Historically, most of the methane released by direct human action has come from the farming industry. But over the past 50 years, leaky fossil-fuel infrastructure, much of it tied to the rise of natural gas, has contributed to a great extent to its emissions.

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