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Texas Crypto Mining Firm Giga Energy Expands Operations to Argentina
27.3.2024
Texas-based cryptocurrency mining firm Giga Energy has expanded its operations to Argentina following its expansion across the U.S. and into Shanghai, tapping into the gas flaring trend.
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Ghost From the Well: Is Crypto Mining With Associated Gas Better for the Environment?
24.7.2023
Oil and gas companies are keen to use gas that would normally be flared off to run bitcoin mining operations. But environmentalists claim the practice merely perpetuates the use of fossil fuels
Record hash rates may see Big Oil become a major BTC mining player
2.11.2022
Big Oil’s influence over the Bitcoin network is growing stronger due to surging hash rates and distressed mining companies
Amid Colorado’s Gas Flare Ban, Report Shows Half Dozen Gas and Oil Firms Are Raking in a Lot of Bitcoin
30.8.2022
In November 2020, Colorado banned gas flaring, venting, and the release of raw gas into the atmosphere. While the centennial state has a large number of well sites, a recent report shows that roughly a half dozen Colorado oil and gas companies are leveraging gas-to-bitcoin flare mitigation systems...
Gas-to-Bitcoin Mining Firm Crusoe Energy Systems Raises $505 Million
22.4.2022
On Thursday, the bitcoin mining and flare gas mitigation firm Crusoe Energy Systems Inc. revealed it secured $505 million in new capital from strategic investors. According to the announcement, the Series C equity funding round was led by the climate technology venture capital firm G2 Venture...
Oil giant ConocoPhilips reduces gas flaring emissions via Bitcoin mining
17.2.2022
Oil and gas giant ConocoPhilips has entered the Bitcoin mining business in a bid to profitably reduce carbon emissions
Publicly Listed Energy Firm Equinor Exploits Gas Flaring in North Dakota to Mine Bitcoin
21.9.2020
Just recently, the firm Arcane Research recently revealed a number of screenshots from the publicly traded energy firm, Equinor. The pictures show the multinational company leveraging natural gas flaring to power bitcoin mining operations. In recent years, using the unorthodox gas flaring scheme...
Energy Giant Equinor to Cut Gas Flaring With Bitcoin Mining Tie-Up: Report
28.8.2020
Equinor will use digital flare mitigation tech from Crusoe Energy at its Bakken oilfield operations in the U.S