A41Q
Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Natural Gas Supply Chain I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3012 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Robert C Harriss, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Ramon Alvarez, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States
Chairs:  Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert C Harriss, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  David Richard Lyon, University of Arkansas, Environmental Dynamics, Fayetteville, AR, United States
08:00
Estimates of Methane and Ethane Emissions from the Barnett Shale Using Atmospheric Measurements (Invited) (59985)
Anna Karion, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States; National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States
08:15
Integrating Oil and Gas Measurement Data to Estimate Spatially-Gridded Methane Emissions in the Barnett Shale (Invited) (59986)
David Richard Lyon, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States; University of Arkansas, Environmental Dynamics, Fayetteville, AR, United States
08:30
Reconciling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Estimates of Oil and Gas Methane Emissions in the Barnett Shale (Invited) (60022)
Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund Boston, Boston, MA, United States
08:45
What is so super about super-emitters? Characterizing methane high emitters from natural gas infrastructure (Invited) (60025)
Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund - EDF, Austin, TX, United States
09:00
Hydrogen stable isotopic constraints on methane emissions from oil and gas extraction in the Colorado Front Range, USA (60519)
Amy Townsend-Small1, E. Claire Botner1, Kristine Jimenez1, Nicola J Blake2, Jason Schroeder2, Simone Meinardi2, Barbara Barletta2, Isobel Jane Simpson2, Donald Ray Blake2, Frank M Flocke3, Gabriele Pfister3, Daniel Bon4 and James H Crawford5, (1)University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
09:15
Development of a national estimate of methane emissions from United States natural gas gathering facilities and processing plants (74654)
Anthony John Marchese1, Allen L Robinson2, Daniel Zimmerle1, Timothy L Vaughn1, David M Martinez1, Laurie Williams1,3, Austin Mitchell2, R Subramanian2, Joseph R Roscioli4 and Scott C. Herndon5, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (3)Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, United States, (4)Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, MA, United States, (5)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA, United States
09:30
Examining the Prevalence of Natural Gas “Super-emitters” in the Marcellus Shale Region (74797)
Haley Lane, Dana Caulton, Levi Golston, Jessica Lu, Mark A Zondlo and Lars Preben Wendt, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
09:45
Bounding the climate viability of natural gas as a bridge fuel to displace coal (86287)
Zeke Hausfather, University of California, Energy & Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
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