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AMLO says his government is

committed to reducing gas flaring

MEXICAN President Andres Manuel Lopez of the country’s annual carbon dioxide emis-
Obrador told reporters last week that his gov- sions, during an “ultra-emission” event between
ernment was committed to reducing associated December 8 and December 27.
gas and methane flaring. Methane is often flared off during oil produc-
Speaking during his daily press conference tion operations to minimise harmful impact. It
in Mexico City, Lopez Obrador said on June is a key driver of climate change, as it is much
17 that he had discussed gas flaring during a more powerful at trapping heat than carbon
recent meeting with John Kerry, the US special dioxide. However, it only lasts in the atmosphere
presidential envoy for climate. He stated that he for around a decade. ™
had informed Kerry about his administration’s
efforts to curb the practice of burning off gas
during crude oil production operations rather
than separating it and setting it aside for later
use.
“We discussed this topic with Mr. Kerry, and
we’re already working on two programmes to
reduce the flaring of gas,” he said.
The president did not describe either of the
programmes, but he did emphasise that Mex-
ico had a strong incentive to capture the gas
rather than burn it off. “It’s something that we’re
already dealing with because it’s the most irra-
tional thing that can happen – to be buying gas
and having to burn it here, with the contamina-
tion that it implies,” he remarked.
Lopez Obrador was speaking in response
to questions about the release of a report by
the European Space Agency (ESA) earlier this
month on the discovery that Mexico’s national
oil company (NOC) Pemex had experienced
a methane leak at an offshore platform last
December. In the report, ESA researchers said
they had discovered the leak after viewing satel-
lite imagery that pointed to the release of more
than 4,000 tonnes of methane, equivalent to 3% The ESA detected a methane leak at the Ku-Maloob-Zaap cluster (Image: Pemex)

EL SALVADOR
EDP receives second LNG shipment in

El Salvador via ship-to-ship transfer

BW LNG, a subsidiary of Singapore-based BW 15, when the BW Tatiana floating storage and
Group, reported last week that the Energía del regasification unit (FSRU) completed the STS
Pacífico (EDP) joint venture had received its operation near El Salvador’s Pacific Ocean port
second shipment of LNG via ship-to-ship (STS) of Acajutla.
transfer in El Salvador. It said that EDP had moved the cargo from
The company revealed via social media posts the Shandong Jupiter, a tanker built in 2004 and
that the transfer had been carried out on June owned by Shell (UK), to the FSRU.

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