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Articles | Volume 18, issue 13
Articles | Volume 18, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2987-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-2987-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 13
Research article
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10 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 10 Jul 2025

Development of a forced advection sampling technique (FAST) for quantification of methane emissions from orphaned wells

Mohit L. Dubey, Andre Santos, Andrew B. Moyes, Ken Reichl, James E. Lee, Manvendra K. Dubey, Corentin LeYhuelic, Evan Variano, Emily Follansbee, Fotini K. Chow, and Sébastien C. Biraud

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Orphaned wells, meaning wells lacking responsible owners, pose a significant and poorly understood environmental challenge. We propose, develop and test a novel method for estimating emissions from orphaned wells using a forced advection sampling technique (FAST) that can overcome many of the limitations in current methods (cost, accuracy, safety). Our results suggest that the FAST method can provide a low-cost alternative to existing methods over a range of leak rates.
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