Methane Leak in Kazakhstan Last Year Smashed All Negative Records

For 205 days in 2023, an invisible cloud of methane leaked through a gas drilling site in the Mangistau region in Kazakhstan. Extensive satellite monitoring and research now demonstrated that this was the largest methane emission from an infrastructure accident ever documented, at least 30% more than the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility accident near Los Angeles in 2015.

An accident at the Buzachi Neft-operated Karaturun gas field on June...