Title: Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space Methane_flux_Permian_EIME.nc
Abstract: This file contains a gridded emission Inventory based on extrapolation of site-level emissions (EI_ME) for the Permian Basin (27-36N, 108-98W). The spatial resolution is 0.25 x 0.3125 grid. See our paper for detailed information. See also EDF New Mexico Oil & Gas Data Project. https://www.edf.org/nm-oil-gas/ Here is a brief description on how EI_ME is constructed: 1. Estimate basin-level oil/gas-related emissions: a) Basin-level oil/gas upstream emissions based on extrapolation of site-level measurements; b) basin-level oil/gas midstream emissions based on Drillinginfo midstream dataset; 2. Spatial disaggregation of oil/gas-related emissions based on spatial distribution of gas production; The emisch4_og field represents oil/gas-related emissions. The emisch4_anth field represents the sum of all anthropogenic emissions. Non-oil/gas anthropogenic sources are taken directly from Maasakkers et al. (2016). Reference: Yuzhong Zhang, Ritesh Gautam, Sudhanshu Pandey, Mark Omara, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Pankaj Sadavarte, David Lyon, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Daniel J. Varon, Ruixiong Zhang, Sander Houweling, Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Ramon A. Alvarez, Alba Lorente, Steven P. Hamburg, Ilse Aben, Daniel J. Jacob (2020). Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil producing basin in the U.S. from space, Science Advances, in review. Primary creator of EI_ME: Mark Omara (EDF)