A051
Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from oil, gas, and coal operations

Session ID#: 158951

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]
1610 Atmosphere [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3315 Data assimilation [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, United States
Conveners:  Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, MD, United States, Matthew R. Johnson, Carleton University, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Ralf Staebler, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
Ozone Precursor Volatile Organic Compound Measurements using Novel Canister Sampler in Northeastern New Mexico (1069988)
Ingrid J George1, Eben Thoma1, William Mitchell1, Lillian Alston1,2, Suzanne Apodaca3, Mark Sather4,5, Alexia Scott6,7, Barkley C Sive8, Roman Szkoda9, Da Pan10 and Andrey Marsavin10, (1)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, United States, (2)Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Program, Research Triangle Park, United States, (3)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, Dallas, United States, (4)US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, Dallas, United States, (5)Retired, Portland, United States, (6)Jacobs Technology, Durham, United States, (7)Eastern Research Group, Inc. Morrisville, Morrisville, United States, (8)National Park Service Colorado, Air Resources Division, Denver, United States, (9)New Mexico Environment Department, Albuquerque, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
 
Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) from Mountaintop Coal Mining (1071854)
Colin A. Cooke, University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, Canada; Alberta Environment and Parks, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Paul Drevnick, Alberta Environment and Parks, Calgary, AB, Canada
 
Shipboard and Satellite Observations Along the Louisiana Coast During 2019 SCOAPE Cruise: Results and Implications for SCOAPE Phase 2 (1073067)
Debra E Kollonige1, Anne Thompson2, Ryan M Stauffer2, Alexander Kotsakis3, Nader Abuhassan4, Lok N Lamsal5, Robert Swap4, Donald Ray Blake6, Amy Townsend-Small7 and Holli D. Wecht8, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)ERT, Inc., Laurel, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (7)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (8)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (formally Minerals Management Service), Sterling, United States
 
Basin Level Differences in Life Cycle of Greenhouse Gas Emission of US Liquefied Natural Gas (1082929)
Yuanrui Zhu and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States
 
Observations show that methane emissions elevate the carbon intensity of oil and gas production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (1084459)
Alan M Gorchov Negron1, Eric A Kort2, Yuanlei Chen3, Adam R Brandt3, Mackenzie Smith4, Genevieve Plant2, Alana Ayasse5, Stefan Schwietzke6, Daniel Zavala Araiza7, Catie Hausman8 and Angel Adames-Corraliza9, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)University of California - Davis, Davis, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)Environmental Defense Fund, Unknown, Germany, (7)Post Doctoral Scientist, Austin, United States, (8)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School of Public Policy, Ann Arbor, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Air quality and health impact from oil and gas production over the Contiguous United States (1090416)
Meng Li1,2, Brian C McDonald2, Congmeng Lyu1,3, Colby Francoeur1,2, Jian He4,5, Colin Harkins5,6 and Gregory J Frost2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratories, Boulder, United States, (3)CIRES and NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA ESRL/CSL and CU Boulder/CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Quantifying Coal Mine Methane Emissions in a Coal-rich Province in China by a Combination of Portable Ground-based FTIR Spectrometers and Satellite (1103110)
Qiansi Tu1,2, Frank Hase2, Kai Qin3, Jason Blake Cohen3, Fan Lu4, Matthias Schneider5, Thomas Blumenstock2, Carlos Alberti5 and Darko Dubravica2, (1)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-ASF, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)China University of Mining and Technology, School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics, Xuzhou, China, (4)China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Quantifying Oil and Natural Gas NO2 sources over the Gulf of Mexico with Ship- and Satellite-derived Data and Meteorological Analysis (1109286)
Niko Markovich Fedkin1, Ryan M Stauffer2, Anne Thompson2, Debra Kollonige3, Lok N Lamsal4 and Holli D. Wecht5, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)SSAI at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (formally Minerals Management Service), Sterling, United States
 
Fugitive Emissions of Organic Acids from a Tailings Pond and Major Facilities in the Canadian Oil Sands Region (Invited) (1109546)
Samar G. Moussa1, John Liggio2, Ralf Staebler3, Jeremy J B Wentzell4, Meguel Yousif5, Zoey Friel-Bartlett6, Yuan You7, Andrea Darlington2 and Shao-Meng Li8, (1)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Air Quality Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Environment Canada Toronto, Air Quality Processes Research Section, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)University of Toronto, Environmental Engineering, Toronto, Canada, (6)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (7)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (8)Peking University, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing, China
 
Trends in US ethane emissions and implications for fugitive leaks from the oil and gas industries (1112619)
Mingyang Zhang1, Isaac J Vimont2,3, Lei Hu4, Kathryn McKain3, Molly Crotwell3, Dylan C Gaeta1 and Scot M Miller1, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (4)NOAA/ESRL GMD, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emission Estimates for Localized Sources with a Ground-Based Hyperspectral Camera (1113034)
Marvin Knapp1, Leon Scheidweiler1, Felix Külheim1, Moritz Sindram1, Pawel Jagoda2, Jarosław M. Nęcki2, Bruno Burger3 and Andre Butz1, (1)Heidelberg University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (2)AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Kraków, Poland, (3)Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany
 
Near-Source Health Risks of Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds from Natural Gas Super Emitters (1161525)
Kelsey Bilsback, Lee Ann L Hill, Chowdhury G Moniruzzaman, Yanelli Núñez, Sebastian T Rowland and Seth B.C. Shonkoff, PSE Healthy Energy, Oakland, United States
 
A Synthesis of Empirical Characterizations of Oil and Gas Methane Emissions from the Permian Basin (1169531)
Benjamin Hmiel1, David Richard Lyon1, Daniel J. Varon2, Zachary Barkley3, Yuanlei Chen4, Evan D. Sherwin4, Daniel Cusworth5,6, Shane M Murphy7, Jonathan E Franklin8, Lu Shen9, Clément Giron10, Yuzhong Zhang11, Ritesh Gautam1, Jack Warren1, Mark Omara1, Daniel Zavala Araiza1, Luis Guanter1,12, Kenneth J Davis3, Natasha Miles3, Scott Richardson3, Adam R Brandt4, Riley Duren5,6, Anna Robertson13, Dana Caulton13, Steven C Wofsy14, Daniel J. Jacob2 and Steve Hamburg1, (1)Environmental Defense Fund, New York, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (3)The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (6)Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, United States, (7)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States, (8)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (9)Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China, (10)Kayrros, Paris, France, (11)Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, (12)Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (IIAMA), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, (13)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States, (14)Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Cambridge, United States
 
Continuous Methane Leak Detection and Localization for Oilfield Assets (1173805)
Kashif Rashid1, Lukasz Zielinski2, Andrew Speck2 and Junyi Yuan2, (1)Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Schlumberger-Doll Research Center Cambridge, Cambridge, United States
 
Carbon Intensity of North America Natural Gas Production (Invited) (1183681)
Jeffrey Rutherford1, James A Littlefield2, Mohamed A Saafi3, Hassan M El-Houjeiri4, Jean-Christophe Monfort4, Adam R Brandt1 and Mohammad S Masnadi5, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Aramco Americas, Climate and Sustainability Group, Detroit Research Center, Detroit, United States, (3)Aramco Americas, Strategic Transport Analysis, Detroit Research Center, Detroit, United States, (4)Saudi Aramco, Energy Traceability Technology Div., Technology Strategy and Planning Department, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (5)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
 
A Refined Emissions Estimate from Onshore Oil and Gas Flaring and Venting Activities in the United States and their Impacts on Air Quality and Health (1185220)
Huy Tran1, Saravanan Arunachalam1, Jonathan Buonocore2, Ananya Roy3, Beth Trask4 and Hillary Hull5, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Boston University, School of Public Health, Environmental Health, Boston, United States, (3)Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, WA, United States, (4)Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, CA, United States, (5)Environmental Defense Fund, San Francisco, United States
 
Determining the density of stationary sensors needed to detect malfunctioning oil and gas wells utilizing high-resolution WRF (1201220)
Shreta Ghimire1, Shane M Murphy2 and Zachary J Lebo2, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States
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