Oil and Gas

Theme and Specification link

With COP29 in Baku taking place in November 2024, this activity explores the ways in which methane emissions are monitored with technology.  

The link to the Financial Times article accompanying this activity can be found here: https://bit.ly/3YMy8mg

This article underpins many aspects of natural hazards and extreme weather within the A Level Specifications specifically: 

AQA

3.2.5.4 Energy security.

Edexcel

6.5 Reliance on fossil fuels to drive economic development is still the global norm.

6.8 There are implications for human wellbeing from the degradation of the water and carbon cycles.

6.9 Further planetary warming risks large-scale release of stored carbon, requiring responses from different players at different scales.

7.6 Global concerns about the physical environment are disproportionately influenced by superpower actions.

Eduqas (WJEC)

3(4).4.4 The global management of oil and gas.

3(4).4.5 Problems associated with extraction, transport and use of energy