On fixing upstream methane leaks: certified low-leak producers already exist and charge little extra for their gas. Irzak argues that data center buyers are now big enough to push the whole gas industry into the low-leak regime.
…months, right? It's not like we're going to stop building the data centers afterwards. So this is like by far the biggest climate lever that I ever had a chance to pull in my career. I don't know if you had 15% of electric grid lying on the ground in your career, but I'm like... I like to think so,
…I have. Okay, so you said preventable. Let's talk about what it takes to prevent it. And I guess, you know, it makes sense to probably similarly walk through the value chain because there's different things you have to do at each step in the value chain, starting with the upstream wellhead stuff.
…for the data center companies to tip everybody into the low leak regime, right? Because we know it's possible. There's existence proofs of the good players that do this. And the good players, the folks that leak less, these aren't like small companies, right? Like BP is one of the certified ones, for example, in the Permian basin. So it's a large supply that is available at the low leak rate. And the data center people together get to essentially decide who drills the next hole in the Permian basin, right? And they can make that decision, right? Because this is such significant amounts of natural gas that, especially if they got together and did a coalition for responsible gas buying or something like that, you'd be able to, I think, shift the entire industry, not even just their direct suppliers, I mean, starting with their direct suppliers to that regime. Midstream, I think very similarly…
Is it an issue for like aeroderivative turbines or no?
I don't think so. But I could double check on those. But I don't think any turbines have this issue. I think they all have much more complete combustion. And then for reciprocating engines, you have this issue. And so first of all, just don't run them with partial loads. So I know a lot of folks…
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