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Satellites spot large methane

clouds near Iranian pipeline

IRAN SATELLITES reportedly spotted several large running for one year.
methane clouds in proximity to fossil fuel infra- All the leaks were seen near gas pipelines
structure in Iran, a country responsible for the owned by the National Iranian Gas Company,
world’s third highest emissions of the super-po- the report said.
tent greenhouse gas from oil and gas activities. Methane leaks are known to happen often
The methane plumes were identified by during routine maintenance of pipelines.
geoanalytics firm Kayrros SAS using European Methane is the major component of natu-
Space Agency data, according to an October 8 ral gas. It has more than 80 times the warming
report by Bloomberg. impact of carbon dioxide over the short term.
It said that the largest leak occurred on Sep- Scientists say that cutting methane emissions
tember 5, in the southwest of the country near would be one of the fastest methods of slowing
the Iraq border, with the rate of release around down global warming.
95 tonnes per hour. Satellite monitoring has exposed methane
That level of emission has around the same leaks from other countries including Turkmeni-
climate-warming impact as 4,700 cars in the UK stan and Kazakhstan.™

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