Recent advances toward transparent methane emissions monitoring: a review

BM Erland, AK Thorpe, JA Gamon - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Given that anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be immediately reduced
to avoid drastic increases in global temperature, methane emissions have been placed …

A global review of methane policies reveals that only 13% of emissions are covered with unclear effectiveness

M Olczak, A Piebalgs, P Balcombe - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Achieving the Paris Agreement 1.5° C target requires a reversal of the growing
atmospheric concentrations of methane, which is about 80 times more potent than CO 2 on a …

On the climate impacts of blue hydrogen production

C Bauer, K Treyer, C Antonini, J Bergerson… - Sustainable Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural gas based hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage is referred to as
blue hydrogen. If substantial amounts of CO2 from natural gas reforming are captured and …

Quantifying regional methane emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin with a comprehensive aerial survey

Y Chen, ED Sherwin, ESF Berman… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Limiting emissions of climate-warming methane from oil and gas (O&G) is a major
opportunity for short-term climate benefits. We deploy a basin-wide airborne survey of O&G …

[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 …

Methane emissions from China: a high-resolution inversion of TROPOMI satellite observations

Z Chen, DJ Jacob, H Nesser… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
We quantify methane emissions in China and the contributions from different sectors by
inverse analysis of 2019 TROPOMI satellite observations of atmospheric methane. The …

A cost comparison of various hourly-reliable and net-zero hydrogen production pathways in the United States

JM Bracci, ED Sherwin, NL Boness… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hydrogen (H2) as an energy carrier may play a role in various hard-to-abate subsectors, but
to maximize emission reductions, supplied hydrogen must be reliable, low-emission, and …

Methane emissions along biomethane and biogas supply chains are underestimated

S Bakkaloglu, J Cooper, A Hawkes - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Although natural gas generates lower CO 2 emissions, gas extraction, processing, and
distribution all release methane, which has a greater global warming potential than CO 2 …

The role of natural gas in reaching net-zero emissions in the electric sector

JET Bistline, DT Young - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Replacing coal with natural gas has contributed to recent emissions reductions in the
electric sector, but there are questions about the near-and long-term roles for gas under …

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

M Omara, D Zavala-Araiza, DR Lyon, B Hmiel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Eighty percent of US oil and natural gas (O&G) production sites are low production well
sites, with average site-level production≤ 15 barrels of oil equivalent per day and producing …