2/ Hildebrand got rich buying up the old, low-producing wells known as “stripper wells.” Wells like these collectively contribute just 6% of US oil and gas, but generate half (!) the sector's methane pollution: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Only 6 percent of US oil and natural gas production output is from low production well sites. Here the authors show that total methane emissions from these low producing well sites in the US is substa...