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Articles | Volume 25, issue 3
Articles | Volume 25, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1513-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-1513-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 25, issue 3
Research article
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04 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 04 Feb 2025

Small emission sources in aggregate disproportionately account for a large majority of total methane emissions from the US oil and gas sector

James P. Williams, Mark Omara, Anthony Himmelberger, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Katlyn MacKay, Joshua Benmergui, Maryann Sargent, Steven C. Wofsy, Steven P. Hamburg, and Ritesh Gautam

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We utilize peer-reviewed facility-level oil and gas methane emission rate data gathered in prior work to estimate the relative contributions of methane sources emitting at different emission rates in the United States. We find that the majority of total methane emissions in the US oil and gas sector stem from a large number of small sources emitting in aggregate, corroborating findings from several other studies.
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