Reconciling Methane Emission Measurements for Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms with Detailed Emission Inventories: Accounting for Emission Intermittency.

ABSTRACT: Comparisons of observation-based emission estimates with emission inventories for oil and gas production operations have demonstrated that intermittency in emissions is an important factor to be accounted for in reconciling inventories with observations. Most emission inventories do not directly report data on durations of active emissions, and the variability in emissions over time must be inferred from other measurements or engineering calculations. This work examines a unique emission inventory, assembled for offshore oil and gas production platforms in federal waters of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the United States, which reports production-related sources on individual platforms, along with estimates of emission duration for individual sources. Platform specific emission rate

SUBMITTER: Chen Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10125359 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature