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Niger methane release could wipe out Irish emissions cuts

Summary by RTÉ
A major oil well blowout in the African country of Niger has been releasing methane into the atmosphere over the past 18 days.

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The TROPOMI satellite instrument detects thousands of large methane plumes annually, but some of them stand out. This weekend, we received a notification that our automated plume detection algorithm had observed a large methane plume in observations from October 8 over an oil field in Niger. This is an area where we do not often see plumes, so team members conducted further investigation by… The post TROPOMI registers a large methane leak in an …

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RTÉ broke the news in Ireland on Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
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