BP Joins Growing Industry Effort to End Permian Flaring

摘要

BP has announced plans to eliminate the routine flaring of gas in the Permian Basin by 2025,becoming the latest major to take strategic aim at cleaning up its US operations.BP said its flaring target is enabled by its newly invigorated Grand Slam facility,in which it has replaced much of the gas-driven equipment,compressors and generators with an electrified central oil,gas and water handling facility.”Electrification of the field has been a game-changer,”said Kim Krieger,vice president of operations for BP's shale oil business BPX Energy.”We are cutting emissions while significantly increasing the reliability of our field operations enabling a 20% uplift in production.”