A43N:
Methane Emissions: Moving from Measurements to Mitigation I

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Session ID#: 31005

Session Description:
Recent measurement campaigns have vastly improved our understanding of methane emissions attributable to industrial activity. The combination of methane’s global warming potential and projected growth in natural gas use makes mitigation essential in the near future. Because decision making often happens under significant uncertainty, this session will focus on methane emissions studies that directly inform mitigation efforts. In particular, we are interested in research that leverages existing emissions measurements to identify specific mitigation needs, reconcile top-down and bottom-up emissions data, harmonize and quantify super-emitters, develop best practices, and formulate evidence-informed approaches to mitigation policy. In this regard, we solicit presentations that report on novel leak-detection methods and technology-equivalence demonstrations, cost-effective leak detection and repair (LDAR) practices, as well as regulatory and policy frameworks for emissions mitigation and monitoring. We are also interested in new field studies that report data from previously missing or poorly characterized sources in the literature.
Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Adam R Brandt, Stanford University, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jacob Englander, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Designing and implementing science-based methane policies (Invited) (233662)
Fiji George, Southwestern Energy, Spring, TX, UNITED STATES
Methane emissions in the Marcellus, top down constraints on emission growth with increasing production (298457)
Peter F DeCarlo, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States and James Douglas Goetz, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
System-wide and Superemitter Policy Options for the Abatement of Methane Emissions from the U.S. Natural Gas System (212225)
Erin Noel Mayfield, Allen L Robinson and Jared L Cohon, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Vehicle-based Methane Mapping Helps Find Natural Gas Leaks and Prioritize Leak Repairs (252937)
Joseph C von Fischer, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Zach Weller, GTI Energy, Digital Innovation, Fort Collins, United States, Joseph R Roscioli, Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, Brian K Lamb, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States and Thomas Ferrara, GHD, Niagara Falls, NY, United States
Quantifying Industrial Methane Emissions from Space with the GHGSat-D Satellite (269374)
Stephane Germain1, Berke Durak1, David Gains1, Dylan Jervis1, Jason McKeever1 and James J Sloan2, (1)GHGSat, Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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