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Companies could use technology known as "green completion" in order to capture the leaking natural gas, known as fugitive methane.
These included mandatory "green completion" on fracking wells, which means collecting more than 90% of the methane that can leak from wells.
The most important regulation needed, said Smith, was "green completion", which ensures that methane – a potent greenhouse gas – does not escape from drilling wells.
Speaking to EurActiv last year, Howarth said that green completion was "the best [method] environmentally, although some methane is still probably released during the operation.
And methane emissions are probably falling because of "green completion", a method used on most new wells that avoids venting or flaring methane.
Then, starting in 2015, gas producers will have to undertake a more comprehensive strategy known as "green completion," in which they capture leaked and vented gas in order to resell it.
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Colorado and Wyoming already require green completions.
The study does indicate that EPA got it right when it required green completions for shale gas wells.
Environmentalists had asked the EPA to require "green completions" as soon as possible — indeed, the original draft of the EPA's rule would have done just that.
The carbon benefits of gas will increase as methane rates are cut by increasing green completions and other practices reducing leakage that the US Environmental Protection Agency has mandated in rules taking effect in 2014.
The rules would require drillers to undertake so-called green completions, in which gases emerging at the wellhead are captured and stored in trailer-mounted tanks and routed back into pipelines.
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