The leak emitted more of the gas in 20 days than the oil and gas industries of some European nations do in a year.
While the emission rate of the Ohio event was higher, the California event lasted longer and produced more emissions overall,reported. Nevertheless, the leak at the Belmont County well still released vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere, according to the researchers. In fact, it emitted more of the gas in 20 days than the oil and gas industries of some European nations do in a year.
The scientists detected the leak using an instrument known as TROPOMI on the recently launched European Space Agency satellite Copernicus Sentinel-5P, which is designed to continuously monitor methane and other pollutants. These satellite measurements could have significant implications given that emissions from the fossil fuel industry are one of the major sources of atmospheric methane. Gas leakages such as these can release large amounts of the gas in relatively short periods of time.
"The current warming that we are experiencing, one-quarter of it is caused by anthropogenic methane—the additional methane caused by human activity," Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund and a co-author of the study, told CNN.
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