Methane mitigation: methods to reduce emissions, on the path to the Paris agreement

EG Nisbet, RE Fisher, D Lowry, JL France… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The atmospheric methane burden is increasing rapidly, contrary to pathways compatible
with the goals of the 2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris …

The successful development of gas and oil resources from shales in North America

DJ Soeder - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The hydrocarbon resources of shale gas and tight oil have made a significant impact on
North American energy reserves over the past decade. The production of so-called …

Assessment of methane emissions from the US oil and gas supply chain

RA Alvarez, D Zavala-Araiza, DR Lyon, DT Allen… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Methane emissions from the US oil and natural gas supply chain were estimated by using
ground-based, facility-scale measurements and validated with aircraft observations in areas …

Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer

PS Monks, AT Archibald, A Colette… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Ozone holds a certain fascination in atmospheric science. It is ubiquitous in the atmosphere,
central to tropospheric oxidation chemistry, yet harmful to human and ecosystem health as …

Methane leaks from natural gas systems follow extreme distributions

AR Brandt, GA Heath, D Cooley - Environmental science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Future energy systems may rely on natural gas as a low-cost fuel to support variable
renewable power. However, leaking natural gas causes climate damage because methane …

Fracture sealing with microbially-induced calcium carbonate precipitation: A field study

AJ Phillips, AB Cunningham, R Gerlach… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
A primary environmental risk from unconventional oil and gas development or carbon
sequestration is subsurface fluid leakage in the near wellbore environment. A potential …

Geothermal energy extraction using abandoned oil and gas wells: Techno‐economic and policy review

JC Kurnia, MS Shatri, ZA Putra, J Zaini… - … Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Retrofitting depleted oil wells to extract geothermal energy is considered as one of the
promising proposals to extend the overall economic life of oil and gas well. For successful …

Gridded national inventory of US methane emissions

JD Maasakkers, DJ Jacob, MP Sulprizio… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present a gridded inventory of US anthropogenic methane emissions with 0.1°× 0.1°
spatial resolution, monthly temporal resolution, and detailed scale-dependent error …

Identification and characterization of high methane-emitting abandoned oil and gas wells

M Kang, S Christian, MA Celia… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Recent measurements of methane emissions from abandoned oil/gas wells show that these
wells can be a substantial source of methane to the atmosphere, particularly from a small …

A review of close-range and screening technologies for mitigating fugitive methane emissions in upstream oil and gas

TA Fox, TE Barchyn, D Risk… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Fugitive methane emissions from the oil and gas industry are targeted using leak detection
and repair (LDAR) programs. Until recently, only a limited number of measurement …