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Satellite quantification of oil and natural gas methane emissions in the US and Canada including contributions from individual basins
Lu Shen
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics,
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC 20009, United States
Ritesh Gautam
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC 20009, United States
Mark Omara
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC 20009, United States
Daniel Zavala-Araiza
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC 20009, United States
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht
University, 3584 CC, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Joannes D. Maasakkers
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, the Netherlands
Tia R. Scarpelli
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Alba Lorente
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, the Netherlands
David Lyon
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC 20009, United States
Jianxiong Sheng
Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge University, Massachusetts 02139, United States
Daniel J. Varon
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Hannah Nesser
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, 519082 Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
Melissa P. Sulprizio
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Steven P. Hamburg
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC 20009, United States
Daniel J. Jacob
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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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.
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