RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1088/1748-9326/aa583e
A1 Höglund-Isaksson, L.
T1 Bottom-up simulations of methane and ethane emissions from global oil and gas systems 1980 to 2012
JF Environmental Research Letters
YR 2017
FD 2017-12-20
VO 12
IS 2
SP e024007
AB Existing bottom-up emission inventories of methane from global oil and gas systems do not well explain year-on-year variation in atmospheric methane estimated by top-down models. Using a novel bottom-up approach this study quantifies and attributes methane and ethane emissions from global oil and gas production from 1980 to 2012. Country-specific information on associated gas flows from published sources are combined with inter-annual variations in observed flaring of associated gas from satellite images from 1994 to 2010, to arrive at country-specific annual estimates of methane and ethane emissions from flows of associated gas. Results confirm trends from top-down models and indicate considerably higher methane and ethane emissions from oil production than previously shown in bottom-up inventories for this time period.
PB Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
SN 1748-9326
LK https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/14230/