METEC – News and Publications
METEC - In The News
2025 News
January 14 – METEC/CSU awarded $326M for projects to improve oil and gas operations and reduce methane emissions
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
METEC - Research Publications
2025 Publications
01 January – Performance of survey solutions under single-blind controlled testing protocol. *
Chiemezie Ilonze, Rachel Day, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, Ryan Brouwer, Dan Zimmerle
2024 Publications
10 December – Using Measurement-Informed Inventory to Assess Emissions in the Denver-Julesburg Basin *
Arthur Santos, Winrose Mollel, Jerry Duggan, Anna Hodshire, Prajay Vora, Daniel Zimmerle
13 Nov 2024 – Evaluating the accuracy of downwind methods for quantifying point source emissions *
Mercy Mbua, Stuart N. Riddick, Elijah Kiplimo, and Daniel Zimmerle
31 October –Addressing Low-Cost Methane Sensor Calibration Shortcomings with Machine Learning
Elijah Kiplimo, Stuart N. Riddick, Mercy Mbua, Aashish Upreti, Abhinav Anand, and Daniel J. Zimmerle
5 August – Estimating Total Methane Emissions from the Denver-Julesburg Basin Using Bottom-Up Approaches
Stuart N. Riddick, Mercy Mbua, Abhinav Anand, Elijah Kiplimo, Arthur Santos, Aashish Upreti, and Daniel J. Zimmerle
18 July – Reconciliation of Ground and Airborne Measurements of Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Production
Jeffrey Nivitanont, Kristen Pozsonyi, Tim Vaughn, Arthur Barbaro dos Santos, Stuart Riddick, Shane Murphy, Daniel Zimmerle
Chiemezie Ilonze, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, and Daniel Zimmerle
J R R Navodi Jayarathne, Daniel Zimmerle, Richard S Kolodziej, Stuart Riddick, Kathleen M Smits
Jayarathne, J. R. R. N., Kolodziej IV, R. S., Riddick, S. N., Zimmerle, D. J. and Smits, K. M.
Stuart N. Riddick, Mercy Mbua, Ryan Brouwer, Ethan W. Emerson, Abhinav Anand, Elijah Kiplimo, Seunfunmi Ojomu, Jui-Hsiang Lo and Daniel J. Zimmerle
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
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