Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Closing the methane gap in US oil and natural gas production emissions inventories

  • Jeffrey S. Rutherford,
  • Evan D. Sherwin,
  • Arvind P. Ravikumar,
  • Garvin A. Heath,
  • Jacob Englander,
  • Daniel Cooley,
  • David Lyon,
  • Mark Omara,
  • Quinn Langfitt,
  • Adam R. Brandt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25017-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Methane emissions from oil and gas systems are underestimated in official inventories. Here the authors synthesize thousands of field measurements and develop an inventory-based model for a better understanding of why this underestimation exists and how it can be fixed.