Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins

Shen, Lu; Gautam, Ritesh; Omara, Mark; Zavala-Araiza, Daniel; Maasakkers, Joannes D.; Scarpelli, Tia R.; Lorente, Alba; Lyon, David; Sheng, Jianxiong; Varon, Daniel J.; Nesser, Hannah; Qu, Zhen; Lu, Xiao; Sulprizio, Melissa P.; Hamburg, Steven P.; Jacob, Daniel J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11203-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11203-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11203-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 17

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02 Sep 2022

Research article |

| 02 Sep 2022

Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins

Lu Shen, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Tia R. Scarpelli, Alba Lorente, David Lyon, Jianxiong Sheng, Daniel J. Varon, Hannah Nesser, Zhen Qu, Xiao Lu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Steven P. Hamburg, and Daniel J. Jacob

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11203-2022-supplement

Data sets

Replication Data for: Satellite quantification of oil/gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins Lu Shen https://doi.org/10.18170/DVN/JPKFU6

Data products: Methane Tropomi http://www.tropomi.eu/data-products/methane

Model code and software

geoschem/geos-chem: GEOS-Chem 12.9.3 (12.9.3) International GEOS-Chem User Community https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1343546

Replication Data for: Satellite quantification of oil/gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins Lu Shen https://doi.org/10.18170/DVN/JPKFU6

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We use 22 months of TROPOMI satellite observations to quantity methane emissions from the oil (O) and natural gas (G) sector in the US and Canada at the scale of both individual basins as well as country-wide aggregates. We find that O/G-related methane emissions are underestimated in these inventories by 80 % for the US and 40 % for Canada, and 70 % of the underestimate in the US is from five O/G basins, including Permian, Haynesville, Anadarko, Eagle Ford, and Barnett.