Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Pekney, Natalie.
This poster discusses a summary of the NETL field monitoring team's efforts to locate orphan wells in Daniel Boone National Forest, KY and procedures to detect and measure methane leaks from the identified well sites.
For presentation at the EnerGIS conference, Canonsburg, PA, September 21, 2023.
About 2.3 million orphan oil and gas (O&G) wells exist and are estimated to emit 200G g CH 4 y -1 by EPA/Enverus that implies an average CH 4 leak rate of 10 g CH 4 hr -1 per well. US government has an aggressive plan to plug orphan wells at costs of around $100K/well. In order to manage the costs of plugging millions of wells, quantifying leaks from individual wells is essential for prioritization. Current methods to quantify leaks require costly hardware, labor-intensive protocols and expensive analysis.
Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting, Denver, CO, January 8-12, 2023
A&WMA Measurements Conference, Virtual, March 8-9, 2022
AGU 2021 Fall Meeting, Virtual, December 13-17, 2021.
A&WMA’s 114th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Virtual, June 14-17, 2021
A&WMA’s 114th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Virtual, June 14-17, 2021
AGU Fall Meeting 2020 (Conference), Virtual, December 1- 17, 2020