Researchers find a small percentage of natural gas wells accounts for the majority of emissions

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 07:30 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources—liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment—at natural gas production sites.

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