Developing a spatially explicit global oil and gas infrastructure database for characterizing methane emission sources at high resolution

Omara, Mark; Gautam, Ritesh; O'Brien, Madeleine A.; Himmelberger, Anthony; Franco, Alex; Meisenhelder, Kelsey; Hauser, Grace; Lyon, David R.; Chulakadabba, Apisada; Miller, Christopher Chan; Franklin, Jonathan; Wofsy, Steven C.; Hamburg, Steven P.

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Developing a spatially explicit global oil and gas infrastructure database for characterizing methane emission sources at high resolution

Mark Omara, Ritesh Gautam, Madeleine A. O'Brien, Anthony Himmelberger, Alex Franco, Kelsey Meisenhelder, Grace Hauser, David R. Lyon, Apisada Chulakadabba, Christopher Chan Miller, Jonathan Franklin, Steven C. Wofsy, and Steven P. Hamburg

Mark Omara

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

momara@edf.org

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8933-1927

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Ritesh Gautam

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR

rgautam@edf.org

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Madeleine A. O'Brien

MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Anthony Himmelberger

MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Alex Franco

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

Kelsey Meisenhelder

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

Grace Hauser

MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, TX 78701, USA

David R. Lyon

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4400-1190

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

Apisada Chulakadabba

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8180-4200

School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Christopher Chan Miller

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Climate Change Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Jonathan Franklin

School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Steven C. Wofsy

School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Steven P. Hamburg

Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY 10010, USA

MethaneSAT, LLC, Austin, TX 78701, USA

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We acquire, integrate, and analyze ~ 6 million geospatial oil and gas infrastructure data records based on information available in the public domain and develop an open-access global database including all the major oil and gas facility types that are important sources of methane emissions. This work helps fulfill a crucial geospatial data need, in support of the assessment, attribution, and mitigation of global oil and gas methane emissions at high resolution.

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