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Session Proposal: Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from oil, gas, and coal operations (AGU25)

A056
Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from oil, gas, and coal operations

Session ID#: 248329

Session Description:
Fossil fuel combustion has a known impact on climate and air quality. Numerous studies have found that supply chain activities (e.g., production, processing, storage, transportation, and distribution) may also play a large role in the air quality and life cycle climate impacts of these fossil fuels. As a result, several jurisdictions have announced pledges and regulations at national and sub-national levels with the goal of reducing emissions of criteria air pollutants, toxics, methane, and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. However, these emissions and their subsequent impacts on air quality – from basin to global scales – are often poorly understood. We call for submissions that reconcile bottom-up and top-down emissions estimates, employ atmospheric inverse modeling, use remote sensing to understand emissions, quantify air quality effects, and/or assess life cycle climate impacts using novel approaches that address the rapidly evolving nature of the energy sector.
Index Terms:

0322 Constituent sources and sinks [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Archana Dayalu, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, United States and Matthew Johnson, Carleton University, Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL), Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Regulatory and Voluntary Changes Have Led to a Threefold Reduction in Methane Emissions Intensity in the Uinta Basin (1862708)
Seth N Lyman1, Tristan Coxson2, John C Lin3 and Colleen Patricia Jones2, (1)Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Bingham Research Center, Vernal, United States, (3)University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Methane, hydrogen sulfide, and volatile organic compound emissions from non-producing oil and gas wells (Invited) (1890532)
Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Khalil El Hachem, St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada and Gianni Micucci, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
 
Costs of Energy Transition: Metal Processing and Local Air Quality in Indonesia (1892688)
Drashti Amin1, Molly Schreier2, Jiehong Lou1 and Steven Smith3, (1)Center for Global Sustainability, College Park, United States, (2)Center for Global Sustainability, College Park, Maryland, UNITED STATES, (3)Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
 
Spatial and temporal variability in atmospheric emissions from oil and gas sector sources in the Marcellus production region (1899194)
Qining Chen1, Nadin Raksi2, Lily Niewenhous2, Sewar Jennifer Almasalha2, Joel Graves2, V'Jae Brown2, Shannon N Stokes3, David Allen2 and Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz4, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis (CEESA), Austin, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, Austin, United States
 
Periodic, Basin-Scale Coal Mine Methane Measurement Campaign Reveals Super-Emitting Coal Mines in The Appalachian Basin (1903101)
Morgan Meyer, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, TX, United States, Shannon N Stokes, University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis (CEESA), Austin, United States and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
 
Underestimated Formaldehyde Emissions from Residential Coal Combustion in China (1907455)
Min Zhao1, Hengqing Shen1,2 and Likun Xue1, (1)Shandong University, Qingdao, China, (2)The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
 
Air toxics and methane emissions during blowout at oil and gas well in Galeton, CO (1917781)
Lena Low1, Matthew Davis1, Jared Stickney1, I-Ting Ku1, Yong Zhou1, Kevin Cossel2, Jeffrey Lee Collett Jr1 and Emily Fischer1, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (2)National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Diurnal Stationarity of Heavy Tailed Methane Emissions Distributions Constrained via Rapid Return Remote Sensing (1919454)
Ethan Manninen1, Apisada Chulakadabba2,3, Maryann Sargent4, Dr. Zhan Zhang, PhD5, Sébastien Roche6, Christopher E Miller2, Amin R Nehrir7, Rory Alistair Barton-Grimley8, James E Collins Jr9, Ashwin Yerasi10, Ethan D. Kyzivat11, Joshua Simon Benmergui12, Jasna V. Pittman2, Eleanor Walker13, Jacob Bushey2, Jenna Samra14, Bingkun Luo15, David Miller5, Maya Nasr5, Jia Chen16, Kang Sun17, Jonathan E Franklin4, Xiong Liu15 and Steven C Wofsy2, (1)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (5)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, (6)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (7)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (9)SSAI, Hampton, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (12)MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, United States, (13)Stanford University, Earth Systems Science, Stanford, United States, (14)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, United States, (15)Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, (16)Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology, Munich, Germany, (17)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States
 
Measurements Measurements Everywhere: Do we know enough to know that we have enough? (Invited) (1921892)
Anna Lily Hodshire1, Arthur Santos2, Michael Moy2, Jenna Brown3 and Daniel Zimmerle1, (1)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Colorado State University Fort Collins, Glenwood Springs, CO, UNITED STATES
 
Quantifying the Impact of Wind Data on the Performance of Continuous Monitoring Systems at Operating Oil and Gas Sites (1922207)
Spencer Kidd1, William Daniels1, Callan Okenberg1, Shuting Yang2, Shannon N Stokes3, Arvind P Ravikumar4 and Dorit Hammerling1, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Golden, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis (CEESA), Austin, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States
 
Satellite Data Reveal Global Super-Emitting Liquefied Natural Gas Supply Chains (1935903)
Arvind P Ravikumar1, Haoming Ma2, Yuanrui Zhu3, Wennan Long4, Mohammad S Masnadi5, Garvin Heath6, Paul Balcombe7, Selina Roman-White8 and Fiji George8, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, (4)UNITED STATES, (5)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States, (6)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, United States, (7)Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, (8)Cheniere Energy Inc., Houston, United States
 
Assessment of persistent, high-emitting oil and gas methane point sources in eastern Venezuela using MethaneSAT (1936941)
Jack Warren1, Luis Guanter2,3, Maryann Sargent4, Dr. Zhan Zhang, PhD1, Mark Omara1, James Williams1, Adriana Valverde2, Christopher Chan Miller5, Sébastien Roche5, Jonathan E Franklin4, Katlyn MacKay1, Steven C Wofsy4 and Ritesh Gautam1, (1)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, (2)Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, (3)Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (5)Environmental Defense Fund, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
 
Global gridded inventory of fossil fuel methane emissions from point sources using the growing satellite constellation of point source imagers (1952058)
James D. East1, Harshil Kamdar2,3, Jack Bruno4, Dylan Jervis5, Emily Reidy6 and Daniel J. Jacob4, (1)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Insight M, Sunnyvale, United States, (3)The Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability at Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (4)Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (5)GHGSat, Inc., Montréal, QC, Canada, (6)ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, United States
 
Characterizing Methane Emission Distributions from Oil and Gas Production Regions to Assess Mitigation Efficacy (1958147)
Valerie Fox-Coughlin, Environmental Defense Fund, West St Paul, Minnesota, UNITED STATES, Daniel Zavala Araiza, Environmental Defense Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Donglai Xie, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States
 
Estimating oil and gas methane emissions: why skewness is a challenge (1973751)
Dorit Hammerling and William Daniels, Colorado School of Mines, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Golden, United States
 
Compounds Emitted and Formed from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Eagle Ford Shale (1976886)
Kat Konon1, Lea El Khoury1, Evelyn Deveraux2, Pearl Abue1, Leif Jahn3, Mrinali Modi1, Austin Turner1, Chou-Hsien Lin2, Daniel Blomdahl4, Kristi McPherson1, David Allen5, Pawel Misztal2 and Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States, (3)Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis, Austin, United States
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