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The Environmental Partnership announced the launch of its latest performance program, which is focused on reducing flaring in upstream operations.

The Fugitive Emissions Journal team wishes our readers, colleagues, and friends a wonderful holiday season. We look forward to 2021, and continuing to bring you the latest news and product developments in the ever-evolving realm of industrial emission control and prevention.

The Global Status of CCS Report 2020 reports on the vital role of carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) plays in reducing emissions to net-zero by 2050 as well as documenting the current status and important milestones for the technology over the past year.The report provides detailed information on and analyses of the global CCS facility pipeline, international policy perspectives, CO2 storage and the CCS legal and regulatory environment.

The US administration finalized a rule last week that changes the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculates the costs and benefits of new limits on air pollution.The new cost-benefit requirements, which apply to all future Clean Air Act rules, instruct the agency to weigh all the economic costs of curbing an air pollutant but disregard many of the incidental benefits that arise, such as illnesses and deaths.

ExxonMobil said it plans further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the next five years to support the goals of the Paris Agreement and anticipates meeting year-end 2020 reductions.ExxonMobil plans to reduce the intensity of operated upstream greenhouse gas emissions by 15 to 20% by 2025, compared to 2016 levels.

Total signed a strategic framework agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), to explore joint research, development and deployment partnership opportunities in the areas of CO2 emission reductions and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).The agreement brings together the best-in-class in low carbon technologies from ADNOC and Total, and expands on the long-standing partnership and collaboration between the two leading energy producers across the full value chain.The agreement was signed by His Excellency Dr.

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Oxford Flow, the flow control equipment specialist for oil, gas, water and industrial process industries, announced that its pioneering ES axial flow isolation valve for the oil, gas and petrochemical sectors has excelled in fugitive emissions testing – offering a viable option to eliminate fugitive emissions from valves in critical processes.

The Sniffers is pleased to announce that its Methane Accounting Program has received the Energy Institute Environment Award 2020.

According to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data through August and EIA estimates for September through December carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the U.S.