Quantifying methane and ozone precursor emissions from oil and gas production regions across the contiguous US

CB Francoeur, BC McDonald, JB Gilman… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present an updated fuel-based oil and gas (FOG) inventory with estimates of nitrogen
oxide (NOx) emissions from oil and natural gas production in the contiguous US (CONUS) …

Development of a fuel-based oil and gas inventory of nitrogen oxides emissions

AM Gorchov Negron, BC McDonald… - Environmental …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this study, we develop an alternative Fuel-based Oil and Gas inventory (FOG) of nitrogen
oxides (NO x) from oil and gas production using publicly available fuel use records and …

Air quality concerns of unconventional oil and natural gas production

RA Field, J Soltis, S Murphy - Environmental Science: Processes & …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Increased use of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in unconventional oil and natural gas (O &
NG) development from coal, sandstone, and shale deposits in the United States (US) has …

Quantifying NOx Emissions from US Oil and Gas Production Regions Using TROPOMI NO2

B Dix, C Francoeur, M Li, R Serrano-Calvo… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The production of crude oil and natural gas is associated with emissions of air pollutants,
such as nitrogen oxides (NO x= NO+ NO2) and volatile organic compounds, which are …

Understanding high wintertime ozone pollution events in an oil-and natural gas-producing region of the western US

R Ahmadov, S McKeen, M Trainer… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Recent increases in oil and natural gas (NG) production throughout the western US have
come with scientific and public interest in emission rates, air quality and climate impacts …

Aircraft and satellite observations reveal historical gap between top–down and bottom–up CO2 emissions from Canadian oil sands

SN Wren, CA McLinden, D Griffin, SM Li… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Measurement-based estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from complex industrial
operations are challenging to obtain, but serve as an important, independent check on …

Nitrogen oxide emissions from US oil and gas production: Recent trends and source attribution

B Dix, J de Bruin, E Roosenbrand… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
US oil and natural gas production volumes have grown by up to 100% in key production
areas between January 2017 and August 2019. Here we show that recent trends are visible …

Impact of US oil and natural gas emission increases on surface ozone is most pronounced in the central United States

A Pozzer, MG Schultz, D Helmig - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Observations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from a surface sampling network and
simulation results from the EMAC (ECHAM5/MESSy for Atmospheric Chemistry) model were …

Assessment of Updated Fuel‐Based Emissions Inventories Over the Contiguous United States Using TROPOMI NO2 Retrievals

M Li, BC McDonald, SA McKeen… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are air pollutants critical to ozone and fine particle production in the
troposphere. Here, we present fuel‐based emission inventories updated to 2018, including …

Influence of oil and gas field operations on spatial and temporal distributions of atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons and their effect on ozone formation in winter

RA Field, J Soltis, MC McCarthy… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Emissions from oil and natural gas development during winter in the Upper Green River
basin of Wyoming are known to drive episodic ozone (O 3) production. Contrasting O 3 …