Mexican methane leak rate 'alarming' for climate change, report says


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Jul 2021

FILE PHOTO A fuel burner is seen at Mexicos state-run oil monopoly Pemex platform quotKu Maloob Zaapquot in the Northeast Marine Region of Pemex Exploration and Production in the Bay of Campeche April 19 2013. REUTERSVictor Ruiz Garcia

FILE PHOTO: A fuel burner is seen at Mexico's state-run oil monopoly Pemex platform "Ku Maloob Zaap" in the Northeast Marine Region of Pemex Exploration and Production in the Bay of Campeche April 19, 2013. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Garcia

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's methane leak rate from oil and gas operations is twice as high as that of the world's top oil producer, the United States, a group of researchers found in a report due to be released this week.

Invisible and odorless but much more harmful than carbon dioxide, climate change scientists consider methane to be a major driver of global warming.

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