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partnership announced with the Environmental Defense Fund https://www.methanesat.org/ https://www.methanesat.org/ there are a half-dozen such sensor missions.

partnership announced with the Environmental Defense Fund https://www.methanesat.org/ https://www.methanesat.org/ there are a half-dozen such sensor missions. https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ogim/ https://gee-community-catalog.org/projects/ogim/ MSFT announced a commercial partnership to do the same not long ago. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-accenture-partner-to-tackle-methane-emissions-with-ai-technology/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-accentu... In the USA, the news of other nations doing the same is not amplified. see GLOC 2023, Global Networking Forum. IAF Last COP, heresay indicated that there was negotiations going on about how much legal identification of site ownership will be readily available. For example, an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico leaks badly, but the owner is a contracting company at arms length. What does the map show to the public?

MagnumOpus 3y ago
Offshore rigs/wells/FPSOs are huge operations and ownership is relatively easily traceable for the people who can exert pressure (investors and governments). And generally it is the big operations that have the biggest leaks. The bigger issue is whether the operator or their government has the funds or the willingness to do something about it... (E.g. Mexican president AMLO and PEMEX's leaking wells like Zaap C...)
vincentlp 3y ago
yes, the field is gaining quite a lot of momentum. The EU is publishing free images from satellites Sentinel-5P with a dedicated instrument called TROPOMI, and the Netherland space research center is crunching those to detect methane plumes. They publish it every week there https://earth.sron.nl/methane-emissions/ https://earth.sron.nl/methane-emissions/ (and yes it's mostly oil&gas). Another nice resource on the topic (not just satellite images, but also small sensors) https://www.methanefix.tech/ https://www.methanefix.tech/. Also this research program on methane removal https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal/home https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal/home
- mistrial9 3y ago
  that methaneFix link is literally just a couple of show-offs! I like the effort.. there is a difference between the large orgs, large institutions and then those web people.. The TROPOMI link is very dense and yes, exactly what the references above are.. excellent, so much to do

MagnumOpus 3y ago

Offshore rigs/wells/FPSOs are huge operations and ownership is relatively easily traceable for the people who can exert pressure (investors and governments). And generally it is the big operations that have the biggest leaks. The bigger issue is whether the operator or their government has the funds or the willingness to do something about it... (E.g. Mexican president AMLO and PEMEX's leaking wells like Zaap C...)

vincentlp 3y ago

yes, the field is gaining quite a lot of momentum. The EU is publishing free images from satellites Sentinel-5P with a dedicated instrument called TROPOMI, and the Netherland space research center is crunching those to detect methane plumes. They publish it every week there https://earth.sron.nl/methane-emissions/ https://earth.sron.nl/methane-emissions/ (and yes it's mostly oil&gas). Another nice resource on the topic (not just satellite images, but also small sensors) https://www.methanefix.tech/ https://www.methanefix.tech/. Also this research program on methane removal https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal/home https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal/home

mistrial9 3y ago
that methaneFix link is literally just a couple of show-offs! I like the effort.. there is a difference between the large orgs, large institutions and then those web people.. The TROPOMI link is very dense and yes, exactly what the references above are.. excellent, so much to do