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 …

Methane emissions and climatic warming risk from hydraulic fracturing and shale gas development: implications for policy

RW Howarth - Energy and Emission Control Technologies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past decade, shale gas production has increased from negligible to providing>
40% of national gas and 14% of all fossil fuel energy in the USA in 2013. This shale gas is …

Inefficient and unlit natural gas flares both emit large quantities of methane

G Plant, EA Kort, AR Brandt, Y Chen, G Fordice… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Flaring is widely used by the fossil fuel industry to dispose of natural gas. Industry and
governments generally assume that flares remain lit and destroy methane, the predominant …

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 …

Why are methane emissions from China's oil & natural gas systems still unclear? A review of current bottom-up inventories

J Gao, CH Guan, B Zhang - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
There is growing awareness and concern on methane (CH 4) emissions from China's oil
and natural gas (ONG) systems owing to the carbon neutral target. This paper aims to …

Multiscale methane measurements at oil and gas facilities reveal necessary frameworks for improved emissions accounting

JL Wang, WS Daniels, DM Hammerling… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Methane mitigation from the oil and gas (O&G) sector represents a key near-term global
climate action opportunity. Recent legislation in the United States requires updating current …

New Mexico Permian Basin measured well pad methane emissions are a factor of 5–9 times higher than US EPA estimates

AM Robertson, R Edie, RA Field, D Lyon… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Methane emission fluxes were estimated for 71 oil and gas well pads in the western
Permian Basin (Delaware Basin), using a mobile laboratory and an inverse Gaussian …

Variation in methane emission rates from well pads in four oil and gas basins with contrasting production volumes and compositions

AM Robertson, R Edie, D Snare, J Soltis… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Atmospheric methane emissions from active natural gas production sites in normal
operation were quantified using an inverse Gaussian method (EPA's OTM 33a) in four major …

Methane emissions from oil and gas production sites and their storage tanks in West Virginia

D Johnson, N Clark, R Heltzel, M Darzi… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
A measurement campaign characterized methane and other emissions from 15 natural gas
production sites. Sites were surveyed using optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras to identify …

Direct measurements from shut-in and other abandoned wells in the Permian Basin of Texas indicate some wells are a major source of methane emissions and …

A Townsend-Small, J Hoschouer - Environmental Research …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Oil and gas production wells are a major anthropogenic source of the greenhouse gas
methane (CH 4) in the United States. Oil and gas production rates from these wells fluctuate …