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Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-6845-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-6845-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
Research article
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13 Jun 2024
Research article |  | 13 Jun 2024

Assessing methane emissions from collapsing Venezuelan oil production using TROPOMI

Brian Nathan, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Stijn Naus, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, Daniel J. Varon, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Lucas A. Estrada, Alba Lorente, Tobias Borsdorff, Robert J. Parker, and Ilse Aben

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Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo region is notoriously hard to observe from space and features intensive oil exploitation, although production has strongly decreased in recent years. We estimate methane emissions using 2018–2020 TROPOMI satellite observations with national and regional transport models. Despite the production decrease, we find relatively constant emissions from Lake Maracaibo between 2018 and 2020, indicating that there could be large emissions from abandoned infrastructure.
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