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Fixing just the worst leaks in the Permian Basin oilfield’s infrastructure could cut methane emissions by 55 tons an hour, according to a study by NASA, University of Arizona, and ASU.
About half of the biggest sources of the potent greenhouse gas methane in the Permian Basin oilfield are likely to be malfunctioning oilfield equipment, according to a month-long airborne study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University.
Repeatedly measuring the size and persistence of emission sources using sensor-equipped aircraft, researchers found that repairing only the 123 sources that they found leaking most persistently on their flights would reduce methane emissions by 55 tons (50 metric tons) an hour. That’s equivalent to 5.5% of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates of all methane emissions from oil and gas production in the entire United States.
Quilts of Valor presented five quilts recently.
Several Quilts of Valor were presented April 28, including to three recipients from Nathrop, from left, including Ron Dennis, David Johnson, presenter Linda Lafford and Jerry Cunningham.
Dennis served in the U.S. Army from 1966-1972 in Small Arms Repair and Supply.
Johnson served in the U.S. Air Force from 1963-89 in Airborne Surveillance and Intelligence Operations.
Cunningham served in the U.S. Air Force from 1967-94 as an aviator and aeronautical engineer on B-52 and F4 aircraft.
Buena Vista resident Gary French was presented with his Quilt of Valor April 21. French served in the Army as an electronics specialist, served in the Air Force as electronics specialist; was in Germany for 8 years, then American Samoa and served in the U. S. Navy on sea duty for 4 years. He served from 1956-85.
British Navy Crowsnest-equipped Merlins deploy on first carrier voyage
By Jamie Hunter | May 6, 2021
Estimated reading time 4 minutes, 12 seconds.
Three of the U.K. Royal Navy’s newly completed Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control System-configured Merlin Mk2 helicopters embarked aboard HMS
Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth harbor on April 27 in preparation for the Carrier Strike Group 21 deployment.
The first Crowsnest Merlins entered service in March 2021 with 820 Naval Air Squadron at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, Cornwall, and they join the Queen Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to act as airborne guardians during the British carrier’s landmark maiden deployment, which commenced May 1. The Merlin Mk2 Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control (known as ASaC) helicopters will fly high above the carrier group to look over the horizon for possible threats, while the sub-hunter Merlins monitor activity beneath the waves.