Environmental

Methane emissions measurement technologies are evolving rapidly and becoming increasingly efficient over the last few years. The purpose of this paper is to introduce recent technological advancements that have helped operators in the US with more in-depth methane leak insights, improving the performance of emissions mitigation programs, ensuring proper management of associated risks, and delivering measurement-based methane emissions inventories. Technological advancements include both measurement hardware and emissions data processing algorithms and software tools.

Nowadays, concerns about global warming and the rise in greenhouse gasses grow each day. A major contributor to this is the hydrocarbon methane (CH₄) in natural gas. These concerns have caused government agencies, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, to require companies to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions their oil wells release into the atmosphere. One such source of these gasses is small oil wells scattered across the United States. Eighty percent of US oil and natural gas production sites are low-production well sites.