Tiered leak detection and repair programs at simulated oil and gas production facilities: Increasing emission reduction by targeting high-emitting sources

FJ Cardoso-Saldaña - Environmental Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Distributions of methane emission rates originating from oil and gas production facilities are
highly skewed and span 6–8 orders of magnitude. Traditional leak detection and repair …

Temporal variation and persistence of methane emissions from shallow water oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico

KJ Biener, AM Gorchov Negron, EA Kort… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain can be intermittent, posing challenges
for monitoring and mitigation efforts. This study examines shallow water facilities in the US …

Unaddressed Uncertainties When Scaling Regional Aircraft Emission Surveys to Basin Emission Estimates

D Zimmerle, S Dileep, C Quinn - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wide-area aerial methods provide comprehensive screening of methane emissions from oil
and gas (O & G) facilities in production basins. Emission detections (“plumes”) from these …

Extension of methane emission rate distribution for Permian Basin oil and gas production infrastructure by aerial LiDAR

WM Kunkel, AE Carre-Burritt, GS Aivazian… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aerial LiDAR measurements at 7474 oil and gas production facilities in the Permian Basin
yield a measured methane emission rate distribution extending to the detection sensitivity of …

Performance and sensitivity of column-wise and pixel-wise methane retrievals for imaging spectrometers

AK Ayasse, D Cusworth, K O'Neill, J Fisk… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - amt.copernicus.org
Strong methane point source emissions generate large atmospheric concentrations that can
be detected and quantified with infrared remote sensing and retrieval algorithms. Two …