Sentences with phrase «oil leakage rate»
1 ton = ~ 7.3 barrels oil estimated Gulf oil leakage rate ~ 21600 barrels / day (5 - 40,000 depending on who's estimating) or 3000 tons / day methane emission = 1.5 e3 ton / day = 1.5 e9 g / day at 50 % methane by weight in the leak (probably a high estimate) Gulf area = 1.5 e6 km ^ 2 = 1.5 e12 m ^ 2 Gulf average depth = 1.62 e3 m Gulf volume = ~ 2.4 e15 m ^ 3
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.
As a proportion of the total oil and gas produced at these fields, this represents a leakage rate of about 10 % for both fields, in good agreement with previous estimates for several other leaky formations around the United States.
CREDIT: Shutterstock Satellite observations of huge oil and gas basins in East Texas and North Dakota confirm staggering 9 and 10 percent leakage rates of heat - trapping methane.
We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen
We just got a glimmer of hope with the BP oil spill in that one of the leaks has been capped — even if it's tarnished by the fact that the rate of leakage won't much be affected — but you've got to check out what these scientists are saying could happen after three months of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico.
Republicans and the oil and gas industry argue that the methane leakage rate has been estimated to be 50 times lower than the EPA's estimate.