A new report finds that controlling methane emissions from oil and gas production could create tens of thousands of jobs.
To calculate the number of jobs needed, the report’s authors first calculated the number of sites that would be impacted by both the EPA’s methane rule as well as the federal government’s orphan well capping program. In addition to old wells, these sites include the infrastructure in use at active oil and gas sites, like storage tanks, pneumatic controllers,
and compressor stations. They then modeled how many employees would be needed to address these various issues, using data on cost of repairs and maintenance, the hourly cost of work, and the number of hours estimated to be needed to complete various tasks. The results are not small. More than 19,400 jobs could be created with the bare minimum of mitigation efforts mandated by the Biden administration. If Texas really buckled down and went above and beyond, by more aggressively implementing methane mitigation techniques, it could create 35,000 jobs.
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