Southwestern Energy, like Tommy Lee Jones, is pursuing a fugitive like there’s no tomorrow. That fugitive is methane emissions it fully intends to capture.

I don’t recall another movie where I sat on the edge of my seat so quickly or so long as I did when Tommy Lee Jones pursued Harrison Ford in “The Fugitive.” It was a good an action flick as has ever be made if you ask me. It was all brought to mind again, with a Philadelphia Inquirer article by the always excellent Andrew Maykuth that appeared a little over a month ago about Southwestern Energy’s program to capture fugitive methane emissions. Entitled “A Shale-gas Producer Pursues An Elusive and Invisible Fugitive,” it outlines the extensive efforts made by SWN to play Tommy Lee Jones in real life.

Here are some of the key points made by Maykuth:

Southwestern Energy — the nation’s third largest gas producer, operating nearly 500 shale-gas wells in Pennsylvania — launched its leak detection and repair program about five years ago. The aim was to capture a valuable product, but also to address emerging concerns that methane leaks were wiping out the purported greenhouse-gas benefits of the nation’s shift from coal to natural gas…

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/southwestern-energy-scores-big-slashing-methane-emissions/