02211nam a2200169 4500 20260522143404.0 260224s xxu Arias, Daniel 1833 International Gas Union 21624 World Gas Conference (23rd. : 2006 jun 5-9 : Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 39854 The natural gas chain Toward a global life cycle assessment ; PROGRAMME COMMITTEE "A" REPORT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 02/09/2025 ; 2009-09-01 Este documento está en CD en nuestra biblioteca, consulte por su disponibilidad. The International Gas Union (IGU) started a life-cycle initiative for the natural-gas chain. The aim was to collect an structure industry data on consumptions and emissions along the life cycle of natural gas. This report describes the initiation of the life-cycle inventory. Costs and environmental impact are important drivers for investigating the natural gas life cycle. Environmental impact will more and more become an important subject in industry policy and strategy. While natural gas is now performing well in terms of environmental profile with respect to other fossil energy sources, continued efforts will be essential to keep this position in a changing market and with other fossil fuels working on their environmental impacts. In order to identify the - most attractive - options for improvement, further expansion of the lifecycle database is desirable. One of the main issues in the natural gas chain is the loss of product through fugitive emissions and venting or flaring. Natural gas - methane - has a high global warming impact and therefore product loss and climate impact are closely related. This means that reducing losses leads to improved economic as well as environmental performance. While venting, or flaring, may not easily be avoided, the fugitive emissions could in principle be reduced significantly, as is shown in the USA Gasstar programme. Also, the energy efficiency of processing, may be improved. Most of this energy is provided by the natural gas itself and thus results in a loss of product as well. CONGTP ddc 170415 170415 0 0 0 0 238234 BAAB BAAB 2026-03-05 200045251 0 200045251 2026-03-05 15:12:38 2026-03-05 CONGTP