Sentences with phrase «fugitive emissions from»

There are two distinct issues here, the first is the direct effect of fugitive emissions from fracking operations.

The Edgar 4.0 inventory has rice at 33 mega tonnes and enteric fermentation at 96 mega tonnes and fugitive emissions from oil and gas at 72 mega tonnes.

That's another strike against those, including a Cornell academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions advantages natural gas has over coal in power generation.

The greenhouse gas inventory it filed with the UN suggests fugitive emissions from the oil and gas sector made up a third of its total footprint in 2014.

«This research supports other recent findings suggesting that fugitive emissions from fossil - fuel industrial activity actually are the largest methane source.

The real problem in weighing fugitive emissions from gas and oil wells and pipelines is that there is simply no reliable source of data — at all.

The mega-leak has drawn attention to the broader problem of fugitive emissions from natural gas production, processing, pipeline and storage infrastructure across the country.

Not exact matches

California's Bay Area Air Quality Management District changed its approach after studies showed leaks from oil refineries in the area — known as fugitive emissions — were likely underrepresented in emission factors.

Fugitive methane emissions from distribution mains account for 32 percent of methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas distribution sector.

The rate of emission from holes popping one at every year as estimated by David above is at least 10000 times smaller than other emissions, e.g. fugitive FF mining and agricultural that are in the order of 100s Mt CH4.

I encourage folks to look back at the piece I did on this arena in 2009, in which the formal Environmental Protection Agency estimate of leaks from gas and oil operates jumped tenfold (with hints from officials that such «fugitive» emissions could be a hundredfold higher).

Fugitive emissions like methane challenge pollution control experts, because they do not come from a more easily controllable «point source», like a smokestack or process pipe, which could be fitted with technology to capture or clean up the gas.

Fugitive emissions: Unintended leaks of gas from the processing, transmission, and / or transportation of fossil fuels.

A lot of this pollution was «fugitive» emissions — leaks from valves, flanges, tiny holes in pipes, and incomplete combustion of waste gasses in the plants» flares.

Even assuming no leakage from fugitive emissions, EOR produces 1.41 tons of CO2 emissions for every ton injected underground.

Industrial Processes By - product or fugitive emissions of greenhouse gases from industrial processes.

-- The term «fugitive emissions» means emissions from leaks, valves, joints, or other small openings in pipes, ducts, or other equipment, or from vents.

Yes I can say Muller misstated the difference in emissions between coal, oil and gas, because the other components of life cycle emissions (such as the fugitive emissions you referred to) are small compared with emissions from fuel combustion.

A carbon tax could come back to bite natural gas producers big time if the EPA decides, along the lines of Cornell University research, that fugitive methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing make natural gas as carbon - intensive as coal.

A University of Texas study from last year — sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and the oil and natural gas industry — put fugitive methane emissions at 0.42 percent of total production.

Fugitive emissions occur when gases or vapors escape from pressurized equipment.

Discusses and quantifies energy - related emissions of all greenhouse gases resulting from stationary and mobile source activities, including fuel combustion and fugitive fuel emissions.

Sector 2: GHG emission reductions from industrial processes (non-combustion, chemical reaction, fugitive, and other)

More and more people are learning about how bad fracking is, even Robert F. Kennedy jr, came out and publicly admitted that Fracking is not a safe bridge away from fossil fuels and is worse for climate change then using coal because of the fugitive methane emissions that are released in the fracking process's.

And it is true that over the short term, fugitive methane emissions have the potential to erode most or all of the CO2 emissions benefit resulting from switching from coal to gas.

The analysis also included calculations of a producer's direct emissions via flaring and venting processes, emissions from entities using their own fuel, and fugitive emissions of methane from oil and gas operations and coal mining.

Present measurement and accounting of fugitive emissions of methane from unconventional gas extraction is inadequate.

The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse gases.

We value feedback and constructive criticisms from experts like you, and accordingly we have taken a look at the adjustments to UNFCC's CO2 numbers for IPCC Categories IB1 and IB2 for fugitive emissions.

In addition to vented emissions, methane losses can occur from leaks (also referred to as fugitive emissions) in all parts of the infrastructure, from connections between pipes and vessels, to valves and equipment.

We know a lot more about where fugitive methane emissions come from and how to address them.

The worksheets available below constitute the details each entity's production of oil & NGLs, natural gas, coal, and cement from as early as 1854 to 2010, as well as additional sources of emissions (such as vented CO2, flared CO2, own fuel use, and vented or fugitive methane), non-energy uses of oil, gas, and coal, emission factors for each fuel, calculation of emissions attributed to each Carbon Major producer, and several summary worksheets by fuel and for cumulative emissions by all entities.

Fugitive methane emissions from natural gas systems represent a significant source of global warming pollution in the U.S. Reductions in methane emissions are urgently needed as part of the broader effort to slow the rate of global temperature rise.

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on a question that continues to vex industry executives and policymakers alike: How significant are fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas production?

The carbon price covers electricity generation and energy use other than for transport, industrial processes, fugitive emissions, and emissions from landfills.

Comprehensive policies directed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from sources other than energy, for example waste, industrial emissions, fugitives, land - use change, deforestation and agriculture.