A Comprehensive Integration and Synthesis of Methane Emissions from Canada's Oil and Gas Value Chain

K MacKay, SP Seymour, HZ Li… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Methane emissions from the global oil and gas value chain are a major contributor to climate
change, and their mitigation could avoid 0.1° C of warming by 2050. Here, we synthesize …

A decadal synthesis of atmospheric emissions, ambient air quality, and deposition in the oil sands region

EC Horb, GR Wentworth, PA Makar… - Integrated …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This review is part of a series synthesizing peer‐reviewed literature from the past decade on
environmental monitoring in the oil sands region (OSR) of northeastern Alberta. It focuses on …

Methane emissions from an oil sands tailings pond: a quantitative comparison of fluxes derived by different methods

Y You, RM Staebler, SG Moussa, J Beck… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Tailings ponds in the Alberta oil sands region are significant sources of fugitive emissions of
methane to the atmosphere, but detailed knowledge on spatial and temporal variabilities is …

Fugitive emissions of volatile organic compounds from a tailings pond in the Oil Sands region of Alberta

SG Moussa, RM Staebler, Y You… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tailings ponds in the oil sands (OS) region in Alberta, Canada, have been associated with
fugitive emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other pollutants to the …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric emissions estimation of polycyclic aromatic compounds from an oil sands tailings pond using passive air samplers

M Moradi, A Eng, R Staebler, T Harner - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
A mapping study targeting emissions of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) from an oil
sands tailings pond was undertaken in the Athabasca Oil sands Region (AOSR). Ten …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying fugitive gas emissions from an oil sands tailings pond with open-path Fourier transform infrared measurements

Y You, SG Moussa, L Zhang, L Fu… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
Fugitive emissions from tailings ponds contribute significantly to facility emissions in the
Alberta oil sands, but details on chemical emission profiles and the temporal and spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating oil sands emissions using horizontal path-integrated column measurements

TG Pernini, TS Zaccheo, J Dobler… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
Improved technologies and approaches to reliably measure and quantify fugitive
greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands operations are needed to accurately assess …

Comparison of PM10 emission flux of two fugitive area sources based on the real-time flux monitoring results

ST Kim, K Kim, LI Hui - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to a high concentration of particulate matter (PM 10), the Korean Peninsula
experienced its first poor air quality event of the year between November 19 and November …

Characterization and Dynamics of Residual Organics in Oil Sands Fluid Fine Tailings

M Sasar, CT Johnston, M Santagata - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluid fine tailings (FFTs) generated by the surface mining of oil sand ore bodies are high-
water-content, clay-rich materials that contain unrecovered bitumen and additional residual …

Measurement of Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from an Oil Sands Tailings Pond

H Shi - 2022 - era.library.ualberta.ca
Alberta oil sands tailings ponds are under the concern of releasing greenhouse gases
(GHGs) including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). In this research, Eddy …