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Flared Gas Can Reduce Some Risks in Crypto Mining as Well as Oil and Gas Operations

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  • Jennifer Vazquez

    (Haynie & Company, 2702 N Loop 1604 E #202, San Antonio, TX 78232, USA)

  • Donald Larry Crumbley

    (Department of Accounting and Finance, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, RELLIS Campus, 3100 TX-47, Bryan, TX 77807, USA)

Abstract

There are numerous risks associated with mining and owning cryptocurrencies, and exploring and producing oil and natural gas are highly risky, costly, and controversial. A marriage of digital mining and exploring and producing oil and natural gas has reduced the major risks and costs for both the crypto miner and the petroleum industry. On the one hand, crypto mining requires an enormous amount of electricity, which is not environmentally friendly. On the other hand, when drilling for petroleum resources, natural gas is often discovered, but due to a lack of resources or pipeline availability, a massive amount of natural gas is vented into the atmosphere or burned (called flaring). Today, however, this normally wasted gas (called stranded natural gas) is being used to create cheap electricity for mining server containers stationed near drilling rigs, which are used to create cryptocurrencies. This results in reduced CO 2 emissions, lower costs for drillers, and greater royalties going to landowners.

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  • Jennifer Vazquez & Donald Larry Crumbley, 2022. "Flared Gas Can Reduce Some Risks in Crypto Mining as Well as Oil and Gas Operations," Risks, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-12, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jrisks:v:10:y:2022:i:6:p:127-:d:840068
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    Cited by:

    1. Nishant Sapra & Imlak Shaikh & Ashutosh Dash, 2023. "Impact of Proof of Work (PoW)-Based Blockchain Applications on the Environment: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 16(4), pages 1-29, March.
    2. Juan Ignacio Ibañez & Alexander Freier, 2023. "Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint Revisited: Proof of Work Mining for Renewable Energy Expansion," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-21, August.

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