Recent advances could make it feasible to deploy networks of methane sensors to detect this greenhouse gas at large facilities WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new sensor that could allow ...

Pacific Gas and Electric says it is the first energy firm in the US to pilot the hand-held laser technology for continuous monitoring. Major US energy provider Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is ...

They searched for methane on Mars. Now, they’re ready to cruise your neighborhood. PG&E on Tuesday tested methane-sniffing drones at a training facility in Livermore. The utility hopes the ultra-light ...

A sensor installed at the edge of remote oil well site in Karnes County could help solve one of the trickiest environmental problems of the oil patch — methane gas leaks. A program to create the first ...

Boulder’s Ball Aerospace announced this week that it will provide airborne methane monitor sensors and data analytics tools, such as data visualization and processing capabilities, to Denver-based oil ...

In an effort to reduce methane emissions, energy giant TotalEnergies is to expand its use of drone-mounted laser spectrometers worldwide. The France-headquartered company says that the technology, ...

Methane, by contrast, has much higher concentrations — at parts-per-million range — but requires very high-precision measurements. Commercial laser sensors can do this well, but they are simply too ...

A team of CU Boulder engineers, and one startup company called LongPath Technologies, are taking a whiff of that Colorado air: They’re using advanced laser technology to spot methane leaking from ...

U.S. oil and gas companies are investing millions of dollars into technology aimed at curtailing the methane that escapes into the atmosphere even as the Trump administration rolls back regulations ...

Researchers from the UC Merced Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently tested JPL miniature methane gas sensor similar to one ...

Unpiloted aircraft, or drones, can sniff methane from hundreds of meters away from the source, making them promising sentries for early detection of natural gas leaks, say researchers from NASA; the ...

Natural gas is racing neck and neck with coal to be the top fuel for generating electricity in the U.S. thanks to increased use of techniques, such as hydraulic fracturing, that extract the gas from ...