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A Satellite Spotted a Huge Texas Methane Leak, and Within Weeks It Had Stopped
by Carbon Mapper · HQ 🇺🇸 United States
0kg CH4 per hourPreliminary size of the Permian pipeline leak first detected by Tanager-1, later repairedas of 2024-11-16 · may be outdated
0plumesMethane plumes listed on the public data portalas of 2026-11-07
Carbon Mapper is a US nonprofit that uses satellite and aircraft sensors to find individual methane plumes and publish them openly. On 9 October 2024 its Tanager-1 satellite detected a leak of roughly 7,000 kg of methane per hour from a gathering pipeline in Texas. Authorities told the operator, who made voluntary repairs, and a 24 October follow-up saw no plume. Its public portal now lists tens of thousands of methane plumes, and a second Tanager satellite launched in October 2026.