期刊
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
卷 218, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116985
关键词
Prudhoe bay; Fugitive methane emissions; Thermogenic methane; Arctic methane emissions; Oil and gas methane emissions
资金
- NOAA/OCG/AC4 grant [NA140AR0110140]
- NASA Terrestrial Ecology award [NNX17AC61A]
( )Recent warming of the Arctic has motivated assessments of methane (CH4) release from the North Slope Region of Alaska (NSRA). This study examines the contributions of thermogenic emissions from the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field (PBOF) to the elevated concentrations of atmospheric CH4 observed across the NSRA. We report high precision atmospheric measurements of CH4 and ethane (C2H6) within and downwind of the PBOF. Biogenic CH4 emissions, due to methanogenic processes within the Arctic tundra, are not co-emitted with C2H6. We show that the thermogenic gas emanating from oil and gas extraction point sources contains on average 1 mol of C2H6 for every 16 mol of CH4. We use a mass balance approach to estimate total emissions of thermogenic CH4 from two days in the summer of 2016 and find 2-5 times greater emissions than the sum of all sources in the PBOF reported to the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program in 2016. Although higher than reported, these emissions are much smaller than estimates of CH4 emissions from other oil and natural gas production areas in the US, and they make a very small contribution to total CH4 emissions from the North Slope.
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