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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2026

Seasonality and Declining Intensity of Methane Emissions from the Permian and Nearby US Oil and Gas Basins.

Daniel J Varon, Daniel J Jacob, Lucas A Estrada, Nicholas Balasus, James D East, Drew C Pendergrass, Zichong Chen, Melissa Sulprizio, Mark Omara, Ritesh Gautam and 12 more

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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22 authors.

Daniel J VaronMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3207-5731
Daniel J JacobHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Lucas A EstradaHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7823-147X
Nicholas BalasusHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
James D EastHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Drew C PendergrassHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Zichong ChenHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Melissa SulprizioHarvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
Mark OmaraEnvironmental Defense Fund, Washington, District of Columbia 20009, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8933-1927
Ritesh GautamEnvironmental Defense Fund, Washington, District of Columbia 20009, United States.
Zachary R BarkleyThe Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States.
Felipe J Cardoso SaldañaExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey 08801, United States.
Emily K ReidyExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Annandale, New Jersey 08801, United States.
Harshil KamdarInsight M, Sunnyvale, California 94085, United States.
Evan D SherwinLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2180-4297
Sebastien C BiraudLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7697-933X
Dylan JervisGHGSat, Inc., Montreal H3A 2M8, Canada.
Sudhanshu PandeyJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5938-385X
John R WordenJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, United States.
Kevin W BowmanJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, United States.
Joannes D MaasakkersSRON Space Research Organisation Netherlands, 2333 CA Leiden, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8118-0311
Robert L KleinbergColumbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, New York, New York 10027, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3167-0176

Funding

EPA EP-C-17-015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We quantify weekly methane emissions and trends from oil and gas production in the US Permian Basin for 2019-2023, and in nearby basins for 2022-2023, by analytical inversion of Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite observations with the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) at 25 km resolution. Permian oil and gas emissions averaged 4.0 ± 1.1 Tg a

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MethaneAir PollutantsEnvironmental MonitoringOil and Gas FieldsSeasonsUnited StatesAir PollutantsMethanemethanePermianseasonalityTROPOMI

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PMID41429418
PMCPMC12810242

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