If there was a huge problem the increased drilling and production should have resulted in a significant increase in methane emissions.
Is your little potty mouth shut tight and the temper tantrum is over now? You've got control of yourself again? Good.
Then lets discuss this topic once last time.
First lets consider your claim that increased drilling must inevitably mean increases in methane production. Can't you figure out why this hasn't happened? Do I have to explain everything to you three times?
Ok [sigh]. Here it is for the THIRD time.
The reason there hasn't been an increase in methane emissions in some oil producing regions is that there has been an aggressive effort to track down and stop the methane leaks. As I've already explained to you, FLIR thermal IR imaging and other modern methods can spot the methane leaks. Then the oilcos can fix them. Thats the good news. However, as your own links said, the effort hasn't been totally successful as methane leaks in US oil basins continue at high levels just 6-8% below where they were a few years ago. Thats the bad news.
production is increasing and measured emissions are decreasing.
While your statement is true for some individual basins in the USA, on a global basis emissions from fossil fuels are INCREASING. Consider the facts:
1. There has been a recent increase in atmospheric methane. I know you dispute this, but the NASA report I linked to above begins:
A new NASA-led study has solved a puzzle involving the recent rise in atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas Surely even you, in spite of your reading comprehension problems, can can understand that sentence. It says there has been a "recent rise in atmospheric methane."
Do you understand that now?
2. OK...if you are capable of understanding point #1, i.e. that there has been a recent rise in atmospheric methane, then the next question is---where is the new methane coming from? Again, the new NASA report has the answer---the new methane is mainly coming from fossil fuels, i.e. the oil and gas sector. The NASA report says:
Methane emissions are increasing by about 25 teragrams a year, and it also says that fossil fuels account for about
15 teragrams of this increase. That means about 60% of the global increase in atmospheric methane is coming from increased methane losses from the oil and gas industry.
Can you understand those sentences? Do you understand the math now? Do you get now that global methane flux to the atmosphere from fossil fuels is going up at ca. 15 teragrams a year?
Really, when you control your emotions and think about these things in a rational way its not so very complicated, is it?
Cheers!