New gas rules from Bureau of Land Management not needed

The Albuquerque Journal’s article “AG Urges Action on Natural Gas Rules” presented just one side of this topic which is of extreme importance to our state.

For both environmental and financial reasons New Mexico’s oil and gas producers are greatly concerned with not wasting natural gas and have implemented voluntary measures to avoid leaks, other losses and flaring.

For instance, in 2013 one of our member companies with thousands of wells in the state voluntarily reduced natural gas losses by 54 percent. On the national level the EPA’s 2014 greenhouse gas inventory noted that our industry’s gas emissions have decreased by 12 percent since 2011 and emissions from hydraulic fracturing have decreased 73 percent – all during a time when gas production has been rapidly expanding and the U.S. has become the world’s largest producer.

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