Postdoctoral Research Fellow Evan Sherwin and Assoc. Professor Adam Brandt provide NGI's recent Natural Gas Brief
Methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas system likely exceed 2% of production. Airplane-based remote sensing tools could detect as much as 50% or more of emissions from oil and gas production and midstream by focusing on “super-emitting” point sources.
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Stanford Earth professors Sally Benson and Rob Jackson explain why the transportation sector is a heavier lift than the power sector when it comes to curbing planet-warming emissions.
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“Current climate and energy system models typically don’t explore the impacts of oil reservoir depletion in any detail,” said study co-author Adam Brandt, an assistant professor of energy resources engineering at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. “As oilfields run low, emissions per unit of oil increase. This should be accounted for in future modeling efforts.”
