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Research article
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02 Aug 2019
Research article |
| 02 Aug 2019
| 02 Aug 2019
Methane emissions from oil and gas platforms in the North Sea
Stuart N. Riddick
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, 08544, USA
Denise L. Mauzerall
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, 08544, USA
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University, Princeton, 08544, USA
Michael Celia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, Princeton, 08544, USA
Neil R. P. Harris
Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Informatics, Cranfield
University, Cranfield, MK43 0AL, UK
Grant Allen
Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, Manchester,
M13 9PL, UK
Joseph Pitt
Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester, Manchester,
M13 9PL, UK
John Staunton-Sykes
Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge,
CB2 1EW, UK
Grant L. Forster
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Mary Kang
Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill
University, Montreal, H3A 0C3, Canada
David Lowry
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, TW20 0EX, UK
Euan G. Nisbet
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Egham, TW20 0EX, UK
Alistair J. Manning
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
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Currently, bottom-up methods estimate that 0.13 % of methane produced by UK North Sea oil and gas installations is lost. Here we measure emissions from eight platforms in the North Sea and, when considered collectively, the methane loss is estimated at 0.19 % of gas production. As this ambient loss is not explicitly accounted for in the bottom-up approach, these measured emissions represent significant additional emissions above previous estimates.
Currently, bottom-up methods estimate that 0.13 % of methane produced by UK North Sea oil and...
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