BP's New Oilfield Roughneck Is An Algorithm

By 2025 the aim is for 3.5 million tons more of "permanent, quantifiable greenhouse gas reductions." That would be lot of cuts--akin to the tailpipe output of 2.6 million passenger cars. One of the best spots to reduce emissions is right in BP's oil and gas fields. BP figures that half of its fugitive methane emissions--a fancy way of saying natural gas leaking out of pumps and pipes--come from its operations in the Lower 48. And a good portion of those happen in mature fields like the one near Wamsutter, in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming.