METEC – In The News

2024 News

July 17 – Ground surface conditions impact speed and distance of leaking natural gas

June 4 – University in Colorado receives $25M to help reduce emissions from oil and gas equipment (CBS News)

April 29 – Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment awards $3.25M to protect Colorado air quality

April 4 – Department of Energy awards $25M to spur partnership and research at CSU methane detection facility

March 19 – Video overview of the METEC research and testing.

METEC – In The News

2023 and earlier

METEC – Research Publications

2024 Publications

21 June – Methane Quantification Performance of the Quantitative Optical Gas Imaging (QOGI) System Using Single-Blind Controlled Release Assessment

Chiemezie Ilonze, Jiayang (Lyra) Wang, Arvind P. Ravikumar, and Daniel Zimmerle

12 June – Assessing the Progress of the Performance of Continuous Monitoring Solutions under a Single-Blind Controlled Testing Protocol

Chiemezie Ilonze, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, and Daniel Zimmerle

19 April – Flow and Transport of Methane from Leaking Underground Pipelines: Effects of Soil Surface Conditions and Implications for Natural Gas Leak Classification.

Jayarathne, J. R. R. N., Kolodziej IV, R. S., Riddick, S. N., Zimmerle, D. J. and Smits, K. M.

2 April – Unaddressed Uncertainties When Scaling Regional Aircraft Emission Surveys to Basin Emission Estimates

Daniel Zimmerle, Sonu Dileep, and Casey Quinn

3 April  – Evaluating Development of Empirical Estimates Using Two Top-Down Methods at Midstream Natural Gas Facilities

Jenna A. Brown, Matthew R. Harrison, Tecle Rufael, Selina A. Roman-White, Gregory B. Ross, Fiji C. George, and Daniel Zimmerle

29 February – Methane Emissions from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in Colorado.

Riddick, S. N., Mbua, M., Santos, A., Emerson, E. W., Cheptonui, F., Houlihan, C., Hodshire, A. L., Anand, A., Hartzell, W.  and Zimmerle, D. J.

19 February  – Point Sensor Networks Struggle to Detect and Quantify Short Controlled Releases at Oil and Gas Sites

Rachel Elizabeth Day, Ethan Emerson, Clay Bell, Daniel Zimmerle

8 February  – Assessing the progress of the performance of continuous monitoring solutions under single-blind controlled testing protocol

Chiemezie Ilonze, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, Daniel  Zimmerle

5 February  – Potential Underestimate in Reported Bottom-up Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in the Delaware Basin

Riddick, S.N.; Mbua, M.; Santos, A.; Hartzell, W.; Zimmerle, D.J.

METEC Research Publications

2023 and earlier