Comparative metrics reveal oil and gas methane emissions are wide-ranging and stratified by resource

Gas Loss Rate vs. Volumetric Methane Intensity for global modeled upstream production

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Notes: 1. Log-log axes. 2. Gas Loss Rate is calculated as the percent of total methane emitted out of the methane in gas production. 3. 94 assets producing exclusively oil have been removed from this plot, since Gas Loss Rate can't be calculated with no gas production. 4. Values are plotted for entire fields, not individual companies. Many companies are currently voluntarily and openly certifying operations with MiQ down to 0.05 kgCH4/boe.

Source: RMI, OCI+, 2025, https://ociplus.rmi.org