Lights Dim at Giant Russian LNG Construction Facility as Energy Sanctions Bite 11/21/2024

Lights Dim at Giant Russian LNG Construction Facility as Energy Sanctions Bite Payne Institute Earth Observation Group Mikhail Zhizhin contributes to this article about how activity appears to have slumped at Russia’s only construction yard for liquefied natural gas...

How oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions 11/11/2024

How oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions Payne Institute Earth Observation Group provided methane emissions data for this article on how firms regularly hide leakages of the deadly greenhouse gas — despite this being one of the easiest climate fixes...

UN climate summit host Azerbaijan’s gas flaring hits decade-high, study shows 7/28/2024

UN climate summit host Azerbaijan’s gas flaring hits decade-high, study shows Payne Institute Earth Observation Group provided bp and the World Bank with historical data for natural gas flaring taken from their VIIRS Nightfire (VNF) product. Methane reduction in the...

Statistical Review of World Energy 6/26/2024

Statistical Review of World Energy The Payne Institute Earth Observation Group provided the data for global gas flaring based on our satellite data algorithms for the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy.  The Energy Institute Statistical Review of...

Oil companies flare more natural gas, defying effort to eliminate practice 6/20/2024

Oil companies flare more natural gas, defying effort to eliminate practice The Payne Institute Earth Observation Group satellite data team provided gas flaring data for the 2024 World Bank annual Global Gas Flaring Report. June 20,...