Carbon footprint of global natural gas supplies to China

Yu Gan; Hassan M. El-Houjeiri; Alhassan Badahdah; Zifeng Lu; Hao Cai; Steven Przesmitzki; Michael Wang

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14606-4

Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Carbon footprint of global natural gas supplies to China

Yu Gan,
Hassan M. El-Houjeiri,
Alhassan Badahdah,
Zifeng Lu,
Hao Cai,
Steven Przesmitzki,
Michael Wang

Affiliations

Yu Gan: Systems Assessment Center, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Hassan M. El-Houjeiri: Climate and Sustainability Group, Aramco Research Center—Detroit, Aramco Services Company
Alhassan Badahdah: Climate and Sustainability Group, Aramco Research Center—Detroit, Aramco Services Company
Zifeng Lu: Systems Assessment Center, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Hao Cai: Systems Assessment Center, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Steven Przesmitzki: Strategic Transport Analysis Team, Aramco Research Center—Detroit, Aramco Services Company
Michael Wang: Systems Assessment Center, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14606-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The carbon footprints of natural gas supplies at the field level are unclear. Here the authors analysed the GHG intensities of gas supplies from 104 fields and show that their GHG intensities range from 6.2 to 43.3 g CO2eq MJ-1.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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