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 …

Plug and abandonment practices and trends: A British Columbia perspective

E Trudel, M Bizhani, M Zare, IA Frigaard - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a review of plug and abandonment (P&A) practices in onshore wells, with a
particular focus on British Columbia (BC). Regulatory and operational practices are …

Where the methane is—Insights from novel airborne LiDAR measurements combined with ground survey data

DR Tyner, MR Johnson - Environmental Science & Technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Airborne LiDAR measurements, parallel controlled releases, and on-site optical gas imaging
(OGI) survey and pneumatic device count data from 1 year prior, were combined to derive a …

Methane emissions from upstream oil and gas production in Canada are underestimated

K MacKay, M Lavoie, E Bourlon, E Atherton… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Methane emissions were measured at 6650 sites across six major oil and gas producing
regions in Canada to examine regional emission trends, and to derive an inventory estimate …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins

L Shen, R Gautam, M Omara… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We use satellite methane observations from the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument
(TROPOMI), for May 2018 to February 2020, to quantify methane emissions from individual …

[HTML][HTML] Blinded evaluation of airborne methane source detection using Bridger Photonics LiDAR

MR Johnson, DR Tyner, AJ Szekeres - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Controlled, fully-blinded methane releases and ancillary on-site wind measurements were
performed during a separate airborne survey of active oil and gas facilities to quantitatively …

Comparisons of airborne measurements and inventory estimates of methane emissions in the Alberta upstream oil and gas sector

MR Johnson, DR Tyner, S Conley… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Airborne measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure were
completed over two regions of Alberta, Canada. These top-down measurements were …

Single-blind inter-comparison of methane detection technologies–results from the Stanford/EDF Mobile Monitoring Challenge

AP Ravikumar, S Sreedhara, J Wang… - Elem Sci …, 2019 - online.ucpress.edu
Methane leakage regulations in the US and Canada have spurred the development of new
technologies that promise faster and cheaper leak detection for the oil and natural gas …

Methane and hydrogen sulfide emissions from abandoned, active, and marginally producing oil and gas wells in Ontario, Canada

K El Hachem, M Kang - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Abandoned, active, and marginally producing (producing< 1700 m 3/day of natural gas or<
1.6 m 3/day of oil) oil and gas (O&G) wells emit methane (CH 4), a potent greenhouse gas …

Repeated leak detection and repair surveys reduce methane emissions over scale of years

AP Ravikumar, D Roda-Stuart, R Liu… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry is a critical climate action policy
tool in Canada and the US. Optical gas imaging-based leak detection and repair (LDAR) …