Colombia_Middle Magdalena Valley_Heavy oil

Colombia_Middle Magdalena Valley_Heavy oil is an oil & gas field in Colombia. It extracts crude oil and natural gas at the wellhead. It emits about 1,491,742 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 347,725 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-53058680.

Im Kontext: wie sich diese Anlage vergleicht

Untersektor: oil-and-gas-production. Öl- und Gasfelder und Produktionsanlagen betreiben Verdichter, Trennausrüstung und beheizte Aufbereiter; Wärmeverlust aus Dampf und heißen Rohrleitungen reduziert Fördereffizienz.

Vergleich von Kapazität und CO₂-Intensität berechnet aus Climate TRACE Industrieanlagendaten; Sektorrolle basierend auf Ingenieurreferenz.

What 1,491,742 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Local climate

Colombia_Middle Magdalena Valley_Heavy oil sits in a tropical rainforest climate zone (Köppen Af), at 6.4°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Nare Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 89,009 t CO₂
• Colombia_Middle Magdalena Valley_Conventional onshore · Oil & Gas Field · 1,311,649 t CO₂
• Ecopetrol Barrancabaermeja-Santander Refinery · Refinery · 1,519,536 t CO₂
• Cementos Argos Rio Claro Plant · Cement Plant · 294,517 t CO₂
• Ecopetrol, Barrancabermeja,Santander · Petrochemical · 139,123 t CO₂
• Crystal Sas (Sede Marinilla) · Textiles · 4,155 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 6.41621, -74.29895. View on OpenStreetMap.

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