RESOURCES 6: Optional Readings, Videos and Additional Resources

Here, you will find resources that will help you go deeper in both challenges and opportunities for the natural gas industry. The idea behind reading pro- and contrary-views regarding the production and use of natural gas is for you to develop critical thinking for future situations that you may encounter in your professional life. Also note that while the readings are optional, it is highly recommended that you at least glance at those materials. It will help you make connections with the contents provided in the lectures.

Optional Readings

Media

  • The environmentalist perspective

    • Why is Natural Gas Bad for the Environment?

      Natural gas is a fossil fuel that the industry has been pushing as a ‘natural’ alternative to other fossil fuels like coal or oil. Natural gas is usually not low-carbon nor renewable. Fossil fuel companies are putting heavy pressure on governments to stay present and relevant in the energy sector. We revealed how a group of gas companies are influencing the distribution of EU public money for their own climate-wrecking projects. But we’re fighting back against the influence of powerful gas companies. We want to end governments’ support for the fossil gas industry, and accelerate a global transition away from gas to genuinely sustainable energy sources.

 

  • Challenges of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the marine shipping industry

    • The climate implications of using LNG as a marine fuel

      This short video highlights the findings from a January 2020 paper that compares the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of liquefied natural gas (LNG) with conventional marine fuels, namely heavy fuel oil, very low sulfur fuel oil, and marine gas oil. The analysis aids policymakers by including the climate impacts of both upstream emissions and the combustion emissions and methane slip that occur downstream. Presented by Bryan Comer, ICCT senior marine researcher, and Nikita Pavlenko, ICCT senior fuels researcher.

 

  • Opportunities for natural gas when compared to other fossil fuels

    • Webinar: The Environmental Case for Gas

      This webinar provides a preview of the analysis undertaken in the World Energy Outlook 2017 on methane emissions from oil and gas operations. The webinar covers: - Combustion emissions from natural gas compared with other fuels, and the opportunities that this opens up for gas in the global energy outlook - The contribution of the oil and gas industry to total anthropogenic methane emissions and the current status of efforts to measure and report emissions - How the lifecycle emission intensity of gas compares to coal when taking into account combustion and methane emissions released across the respective value chains; and - The cost-effectiveness of emissions mitigation, including first-of-a-kind marginal abatement cost curves describing the costs of reducing oil and gas methane emissions, and the potential climate benefits of doing so. This is the second webinar in a series that will present the key findings and analysis from the World Energy Outlook 2017. In this webinar, focusing on oil and gas methane emissions and the environmental case for gas, you will hear directly from the report’s lead authors about some of the main messages and findings.

 

    • How do you inspect Pipelines? To ensure that pipelines remain in safe and reliable operating condition, numerous inspection techniques are employed, which provide valuable information to ensure pipelines continue to meet even the highest safety standards.

 

Additional Resources