Facility level measurement of offshore oil and gas installations from a medium-sized airborne platform: method development for quantification and source identification of methane emissions

France, James L.; Bateson, Prudence; Dominutti, Pamela; Allen, Grant; Andrews, Stephen; Bauguitte, Stephane; Coleman, Max; Lachlan-Cope, Tom; Fisher, Rebecca E.; Huang, Langwen; Jones, Anna E.; Lee, James; Lowry, David; Pitt, Joseph; Purvis, Ruth; Pyle, John; Shaw, Jacob; Warwick, Nicola; Weiss, Alexandra; Wilde, Shona; Witherstone, Jonathan; Young, Stuart

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-71-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-71-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-71-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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05 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 05 Jan 2021

Facility level measurement of offshore oil and gas installations from a medium-sized airborne platform: method development for quantification and source identification of methane emissions

James L. France, Prudence Bateson, Pamela Dominutti, Grant Allen, Stephen Andrews, Stephane Bauguitte, Max Coleman, Tom Lachlan-Cope, Rebecca E. Fisher, Langwen Huang, Anna E. Jones, James Lee, David Lowry, Joseph Pitt, Ruth Purvis, John Pyle, Jacob Shaw, Nicola Warwick, Alexandra Weiss, Shona Wilde, Jonathan Witherstone, and Stuart Young

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SC1: 'Title of publication', Jorg Hacker, 08 Jul 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Jorg Hacker', James L. France, 23 Oct 2020
RC1: 'review of France et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jul 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer #2', James L. France, 23 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Review of France et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Jul 2020
- AC3: 'Reply to Reviewer #1', James L. France, 23 Oct 2020

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AR by James L. France on behalf of the Authors (04 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (04 Nov 2020) by Pierre Herckes

Short summary

Measuring emission rates of methane from installations is tricky, and it is even more so when those installations are located offshore. Here, we show the aircraft set-up and demonstrate an effective methodology for surveying emissions from UK and Dutch offshore oil and gas installations. We present example data collected from two campaigns to demonstrate the challenges and solutions encountered during these surveys.