{"id":20210,"date":"2020-05-29T15:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=20210"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:04:37","slug":"to-fix-flaring-railroad-commission-must-tackle-the-incentive-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2020\/05\/29\/to-fix-flaring-railroad-commission-must-tackle-the-incentive-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"To fix flaring, Railroad Commission must tackle the incentive problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Previously published in Shale Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

By Colin Leyden<\/a> and Scott Anderson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A remarkable thing happened at the Texas Railroad Commission these past few weeks. Throughout the contentious debate over proration, a growing chorus of voices on both sides was calling on the commissioners to address flaring \u2014 an incredibly wasteful, environmentally damaging practice that has been giving producers a black eye for years.<\/p>\n

During the epic 10-hour proration hearing on April 14, it wasn\u2019t just environmental and health groups banging the drum on flaring. Large and small producers (both for and against proration), mineral rights groups and investors all called for action on flaring. So while proration may be off the agenda for now, the need and desire to address flaring lives on.<\/p>\n

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This won\u2019t be easy or come without tough decisions, but there is ample support in all the right places. And we think that support will grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to lower our own emissions now, including methane, flaring and a whole range of other things,\u201d said<\/a> Bobby Tudor, an oil and gas investment banker and chairman of the influential Greater Houston Partnership earlier this year. \u201cAnd I think there\u2019s a role for policymakers to kind of tighten the screws in a big way.\u201d<\/p>\nTo fix flaring, Railroad Commission must tackle the incentive problem <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n

Likewise, commission chair Wayne Christian said that flaring is \u201cnot something that is going to go away when the industry recovers, unless we do something about it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The heart of the problem is an upside-down incentive structure. The economics of the Permian are built around the liquids, with dry gas often treated as a waste product. Over the years, many solutions for flaring have been offered, including more gas utilization on site, in-field gas storage, enhanced oil recovery \u2014 and of course, more pipelines and processing capacity to take gas to market. But sensible as any of these solutions may be, investments are hard to justify in capital constrained markets when it costs virtually nothing to simply burn the gas in a flare stack.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder then that since 2013 operators in Texas have burned off roughly a trillion cubic feet<\/a> of natural gas \u2014 enough to meet the yearly needs of every Texas home three times over. In 2019 alone, Permian operators sent 280 billion cubic feet of gas worth about $420 million up in flames.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, EDF\u2019s recent helicopter survey<\/a> found that more than one in every 10 flares at oil and gas sites across the Permian Basin was either unlit \u2014 venting uncombusted methane straight to the atmosphere \u2014 or only partially burning the gas they were releasing. That means flaring could also be among the region\u2019s largest sources of fugitive methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, and a significant source of volatile organic compounds and other health-damaging emissions.<\/p>\n

Until state regulators stop allowing natural gas to be treated as a waste product, this won\u2019t change.<\/p>\n

While flaring under current rules might pencil out for individual operators, it shortchanges a lot of other Texans. Royalty and mineral owners \u2014 including 600,000 individual Texas households \u2014 get hurt because many don\u2019t get paid for gas that\u2019s flared instead of sold. So it was no surprise during the proration debate that the Texas Land and Minerals Owners Association, whose members hold over 3.5 million acres of oil and gas properties, urged the commission to \u201cavoid results that give flaring wells an unfair benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state also doesn\u2019t collect tax on flared gas, which means revenue for the rainy day fund, schools and roads is lost. Likewise, University Lands, which manages oil and gas leases on 2.1 million acres in West Texas to fund higher education, called on commissioners to address Permian flaring under their proration authority, saying that it \u201ccould help in reducing oil supply, reducing the waste of natural gas, and demonstrating to an observing public the industry\u2019s commitment to continued environmental stewardship.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem isn\u2019t that Texas doesn\u2019t have rules to limit flaring. It does. And while those rules certainly need to be strengthened to reflect leading industry practice, the bigger problem is that the Railroad Commission has fallen into the practice of handing out flaring permits and exemptions to any and all who ask. In fact, the commission has not denied<\/a> any of the over 27,000 permit applications they\u2019ve received in the last seven years.<\/p>\n

Commissioner Christian has asked a group of oil and gas trade associations to develop a set of recommendations to reduce oilfield flaring in time for the next commission meeting. But any plan that doesn\u2019t address the fundamental economics behind the flaring problem \u2014 including the costs to royalty owners and taxpayers \u2014 isn\u2019t going to solve the problem.<\/p>\n

The Railroad Commission was created to guard the state\u2019s natural resources against waste and mismanagement, and to protect mineral owners. Achieving that mission in the face of today\u2019s challenges requires a longer view of the future than many producers are willing to take. The commission is going to have to once again bring the interests of land and mineral owners and the general taxpaying public back into the equation.<\/p>\n

Solutions are most effective when they are working toward a concrete goal \u2014 a North Star to guide and focus attention. At their next meeting, commissioners should formally adopt the goal of ending routine flaring in Texas by 2025 and direct staff to develop recommendations for how to achieve it.<\/p>\n

This would instantly let industry and the broader market know where things are headed, while giving companies time to innovate and deliver the best, most efficient alternatives to burning off all that gas. It would also allow for a process where not just industry \u2014 but also research institutes, other experts and affected stakeholders \u2014 could be brought into the process to help develop workable solutions.<\/p>\n

Ambitious? Perhaps. But it is in line with the growing industry and investor consensus<\/a> that the oil and gas industry needs to move quickly toward a near-zero upstream emission profile.<\/p>\n

Some may argue that moving to curtail flaring is bad for an industry already facing a massive crisis and that flaring is already decreasing as fewer wells are being drilled and production is shut in. But in fact, that\u2019s actually a good reason to put standards in place now.<\/p>\n

Changing how Texas operators produce and deliver oil and gas will be less disruptive during the slowdown, allowing them to shift operational and investment practices as needed so that, when commodity prices recover and production accelerates, we don\u2019t see flaring snap back. Over the long run, eliminating routine flaring will create greater efficiency and reduce a highly visible source of unnecessary waste and pollution that now dogs an industry that is under increasing scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Strong standards to reduce flaring is not a case of the government intervening in markets. It\u2019s about correcting market failures and recognizing the costs to society from treating natural gas as a waste product. These changes would reward stewardship and responsibility, for both the state\u2019s resources and the environment, on which all economic activity ultimately depends. Together, these are the building blocks of lasting prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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