Sentences with phrase «natural gas supply chain»

EPA inventory data suggests that emissions from local distribution systems are thought to make up approximately 20 percent of the total from the entire natural gas supply chain.

Of course, there is still more study required — particularly of midstream and downstream segments of the full natural gas supply chain.

Lamb's methane emissions project is part of a group of ongoing studies that are looking at the entire natural gas supply chain, from the production wells to the transmission pipeline system to local distribution systems.

These emissions are estimated to be among the larger sources of methane emissions from the natural gas supply chain.

Depending on how much is emitted from the natural gas supply chain, methane could offset the benefit of using natural gas to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Additional evidence for this idea of super-emitters has been reported in other studies, said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at the group Environmental Defense Fund, which is spearheading a set of studies on leaks from the natural gas supply chain.

Impetus to address methane leaks directly should come from an ongoing study involving the gas industry and the Environmental Defense Fund, which aims to put hard numbers on the amount of methane lost across the natural gas supply chain.

The study compliments the ongoing work at universities across the country to quantifying the methane emissions from the natural gas supply chain.

The UT study, which only deals with the extraction phase of the natural gas supply chain, is the opening chapter in this broader scientific effort designed to advance the current understanding of the climate implications of methane emissions resulting from the U.S. natural gas boom.

Methane emissions from the natural gas supply chain are a problem.

EDF's three - year effort involving 16 academic - lead studies will conclude at the end of 2014 and should provide the component emissions data to allow improved mitigation as well as to better resolve any differences between top - down and bottom - up estimates of emissions from the natural gas supply chain.

The two researchers plan to produce a new report in early fall on how methane leaks in the natural gas supply chain are further shrinking the impact the fuel has in reducing U.S. carbon emissions.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

How: We're targeting key states to pass methane standards, and making the case for fixing methane leaks across the natural gas supply chain.

Thousands of independent companies operate throughout the natural gas supply chain.

· Agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and EPA should work with industry to revise contracts so that companies throughout the natural gas supply chain can share in the savings from reducing wasted gas.

Methane leaks occur throughout the natural gas supply chain, from drilling wells to production and processing to the way gas is transported and used by customers.