Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa583e
Keywords
ethane; oil production; natural gas production; bottom-up simulations; associated gas; emission factor
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Existing bottom-up emission inventories of methane from global oil and gas systems do not satisfactorily explain year-on-year variation in atmospheric methane estimated by top-down models. Using a novel bottom-up approach this study quantifies and attributes methane and ethane emissions from global oil and gas production from 1980 to 2012. Country-specific information on associated gas flows from published sources are combined with inter-annual variations in observed flaring of associated gas from satellite images from 1994 to 2010, to arrive at country-specific annual estimates of methane and ethane emissions from flows of associated gas. Results confirm trends from top-down models and indicate considerably higher methane and ethane emissions from oil production than previously shown in bottom-up inventories for this time period.
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