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Session Proposal: From Protocols to Practice: Lessons and Learnings from Implementing Methane Emissions Estimation Frameworks (AGU25)

GC052
From Protocols to Practice: Lessons and Learnings from Implementing Methane Emissions Estimation Frameworks

Session ID#: 251734

Session Description:
As global focus on methane emissions continues due to its outsized climate impact, robust quantification, reporting, and mitigation frameworks are becoming essential tools for the energy industry. Protocols like Veritas, OGMP 2.0, and MiQ offer guidance for deploying methane monitoring technologies to collect data, develop emissions estimates, and verify the results. This session invites practitioners, researchers, and policy makers to share their experiences implementing these protocols. Insights from this session can inform protocol evolution, identify common challenges, and support the global transition to more accurate and actionable methane emissions reporting.
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener:  Srijana Rai, GTI Energy, Zero Emissions Systems, Des Plaines, United States
Convener:  Nadia S Tarakki, St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada
Student/Early Career Convener:  Nadia S Tarakki, St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada
 
MEASUREMENT BASED INVENTORIES: PROTOCOLS COMPARED (1855172)
Matthew Harrison and Tecle Rufael, SLR International Corporation, Bothell, WA, United States
 
Towards Reconciliation of Methane Emissions from China’s Primary Oil and Gas Basins under the OGMP 2.0 Framework (1870928)
Mozhou Gao and Zhenyu Xing Dr., University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
 
Practical and intuitive uncertainty reporting for OGMP 2.0 (1899707)
Illia Yankovyi, Negar Tajziyehchi, Jeffrey Rutherford and Thomas Fox, Highwood Emissions Management, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Bayesian Reconciliation of OGMP 2.0 Level-4 and Level-5 Methane Emission Estimates at Midstream Natural Gas Facilities (1899816)
Abdulahi Raji1, Arvind P Ravikumar2, Brian Halchak3 and Scott Peters3, (1)The University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Williams, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Establishing Temporal Emission Profiles for Snap-shot Measurements in Oil and Gas Surveys (1917266)
Tecle Rufael and Matthew Harrison, SLR International Corporation, Bothell, WA, United States
 
Creating a measurement-informed inventory for the state of Colorado (1961451)
Jenna Brown1, Michael Moy1, Anna Lily Hodshire2, Arthur Santos1, Daniel Zimmerle2, Ethan Rimelman2, Olga Khaliukova3, Callan Okenberg4, William Daniels4 and Dorit Hammerling5, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Golden, United States, (5)Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Boulder, United States
 
Reconciling Reality: Implementing a Statistical Methane Emissions Inventory Framework for OGMP 2.0 Level 5 Methane Emissions Reporting (Invited) (1979338)
Daniel Steeves1, Nadia S Tarakki2 and Martin Lavoie2, (1)Arolytics Inc., Calgary, Alberta, CANADA, (2)St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada
 
Applying Veritas and OGMP 2.0 to Gas Distribution Networks - Building Methane Emissions Inventories from Direct Measurements (1984054)
Sean MacMullin, Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States and Francois-Xavier Rongere, Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, United States