Research
The METEC Research Group centers around a staff of research scientists, management, and students who research emissions from oil & gas (O&G) infrastructure. Research includes experimental investigations, field campaigns, emission simulation, and controlled testing.
Improving Performance of Leak Detection
Measurement Informed Inventory & Regional Modeling
- Measurement Informed Inventory – Effective Reporting
- Mechanistic Air Emissions Simulator (MAES)
- Appalachian Methane Initiative (AMI)
- Colorado Ongoing Basin Emissions Study (COBE)
- Site-Aerial-Basin Emissions Reconciliation (SABER)
- Midstream Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (QMRV)
Multi-University Research Programs
Field Campaigns
- Colorado Coordinated Campaign (C3), Prototypical Site Modeling
- Top Down/Bottom Up Emission Reconciliation (CAMS TOPBOT)
- Colorado Orphaned and Abandoned Wells Study
- Midstream Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (QMRV)
- Site-Aerial-Basin Emissions Reconciliation (SABER)
- Storage Tank Emissions Assessment and Quantification (STEAQ)
Pipeline Emissions
- Practical Protocols for Pipeline Leak Detection (P3LD)
- Partnership for Practical Pipeline Protocols (P4)
- Flow and Transport of Methane from Leaking Underground Pipelines
- Accelerating Pipeline Leak Detection Quantification Solutions Through Transparent and Rigorous Scientific Validation (APpLIED)
- Innovative Sensor Network for Subsurface Emissions (InSENSE)
- Response Protocol for Large Underground Methane Emissions (RPLUME)
- Upstream Pipeline Safety, Integrity and Detection (UPSIDE)
Past Projects
- ARPA-E Monitor: METEC Site Development
- Fayetteville Study: Basin Reconciliation
- Fenceline Monitors Parameters
- Gathering Emission Factors Study (GEF)
- Inline Midstream Instruments (PRCI MEAS-9-01)
- Marginal Wells
- Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Compression Operations in Gaslift and Gathering and Boosting Service
- Methane Emissions from U.S. Natural Gas Gathering and Processing
- M&M Gas Migration
- OGI Efficacy Study
- Emissions from Landfill Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Plants in the Central USA
- Transmission and Storage Measurement