Closing the methane gap in US oil and natural gas production emissions inventories

oleh: Jeffrey S. Rutherford, Evan D. Sherwin, Arvind P. Ravikumar, Garvin A. Heath, Jacob Englander, Daniel Cooley, David Lyon, Mark Omara, Quinn Langfitt, Adam R. Brandt

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2021-08-01

Deskripsi

Methane emissions from oil and gas systems are underestimated in official inventories. Here the authors synthesize thousands of field measurements and develop an inventory-based model for a better understanding of why this underestimation exists and how it can be fixed.