Session 1a: Where We Stand — Canada’s Measurement Based Inventory and Trends – O&G
Matt Johnson: “Measured Inventory results for Canada’s upstream O&G sector” Owen Barrigar: “National Inventory Report (NIR) improvements to oil and gas methane quantification” Felix Vogel: “Bottom-up and top-down synthesis for oil and gas emissions – Atmospheric observations and modelling as independent assessment tool”
“Lightning” Talks John Liggio: “Quantifying methane emissions using aircraft in the oil sands and CHOPS regions of Canada” Zhenyu Xing: “Satellite observations reveal a declining trend of methane emissions from Canada’s Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) region“
9:55
Discussion
10:25
Refreshment Break and Poster Discussions
10:50
Session 1b: Canada’s Measurement Based Inventory and Trends – Landfills
Dave Risk: “National landfill studies and implications” Susan Fraser: “ECCC landfill gas inventory – Bottom-up analysis of landfill methane generation and emissions” Tia Scarpelli: “Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills”
“Lightning” Talks Lawson Gillespie: “Estimating methane emissions from the waste sector in Southern Ontario from atmospheric mobile in situ measurements” Athar Omidi: “Emission dynamics: A comprehensive measurement study of Canadian landfills“
11:40
Discussion
12:00
Catered Lunch
13:00
Session 1c: Other Sources & Sectors
Andrew VanderZaag: “Agricultural methane emissions” Peter Morse: “Collaborative ground and remote sensing studies to appraise methane release from warming permafrost in the western Canadian Arctic”
“Lightning” Talks Keyvan Ranjbar: “Airborne measurements of methane with NRC’s Twin Otter research aircraft in GHGMontreal project flights” Jalal Oliaee: “Measurement of natural methane emissions in the western Canadian arctic using an ultra-lightweight laser spectroscopic sensor aboard a small UAV“
13:45
Discussion
14:00
Session 2: Source Measurements
Mary Kang: “Methane emissions from non-producing oil and gas wells in Canada“
Simon Festa-Bianchet: “Catalytic heaters at upstream oil and gas sites contribute significantly to methane emission inventories” and “Uncontrolled storage tanks: temporal variability and implications” Wayne Hillier: “Storage Tanks and Other Sources”
14:45
Discussion
15:00
Refreshment Break and Poster Discussions
15:30
Session 3a: How Much Measurement is Enough? Challenges of sample size, detection probability, and spatiotemporal variability
Arvind Ravikumar: “Value of operational data in developing measurement-informed emissions inventories” Dan Zimmerle: “Unaddressed uncertainties when scaling regional aircraft emissions surveys to basin emission estimates” Sahil Bhandari: “Capturing the spatiotemporal variability of point source emissions with limited number of surveys and sample size: Analysis of repeated flight overpass data from multi measurement campaigns” Matt Johnson: “Effects of sample size and detection probability on inferences from aerial surveys of oil and gas infrastructure“
16:20
Discussion
16:45
End of Day 1
DAY 2
8:15
Registration / Coffee
8:30
Session 3b: How Much Measurement is Enough? Regulatory Effectiveness and Opportunities in Waste Sector
Tarek Abichou: “Landfill measurements, inventories and MRV” Charlotte Scheutz: “Biogas & waste MRV in Denmark” Mike Thomson:Response: MRV Opportunities and Challenges in the Canadian context
“Lightning” Talks Sanghyeon Song: “Characterizing temporal and spatial variability of fugitive methane emissions at SainteSophie landfill using multi-scale measurements”
9:15
Discussion
9:30
Session 4: The Role and Effectiveness of LDAR Surveys
Shona Wilde: “The efficacy of LDAR programs in practice” Negar Nazari: “Assessing Alt-FEMP approved technologies through AMEP: Enhancing methane detection and management in Alberta’s oil and gas industry” Dan Zimmerle:“Comparisons of on-site survey data with overflight measurements”
Rafee Iftakhar Hossain: “A controlled release experiment for investigating methane measurement performance at landfills” Kyle Daun: “Airborne long-wavelength infrared hyperspectral detection of methane emissions” Michael Thorpe: “Aerial gas mapping LiDAR for methane emissions management at oil and gas infrastructure” Jason McKeever: “Validation and metrics for methane plume imaging and quantification“
Dan Zimmerle: “Updates on METEC trials of continuous monitoring solutions” Stefan Bokaemper: “Determining the emissions mitigation equivalency of continuous monitoring cameras with monthly OGI inspections”
“Lightning” Talks Afshan Khaleghi: “Advancing methane source localization and quantification: A refined Lagrangian approach for CH4 sources” Kyle Daun: “Quantifying the uncertainty of truck-based methane emission estimates” Hamish Adam: “Quantitative CH4 Emissions Monitoring with Open Path Laser Analyzers“
13:50
Discussion
14:05
Session 7: Mitigation Analysis
Alexandre Cabral: “Residual and fugitive methane emission mitigation using biosystems” Alberto Alva: “Techno-Economic Analysis of Methane Mitigation Pathways for the Upstream Oil & Gas Sector in Canada”
14:35
Discussion
14:45
Refreshment Break and Poster Discussions
15:00
Session 8: Faster & Further – A Facilitated Discussion of Next Steps Tom Curry (US DOE): “Multinational Efforts toward MRV Standards” Facilitated Group Discussion – Next Steps for Canadian Methane Action
16:45
Closing Remarks
16:50
End of Day 2
18:00
Dinner reception at Metropolitain
EU-Canada Dialogue on Methane
DAY 3
Special Event: EU-Canada Dialogue on Methane as part of the European Union Climate Dialogues (EUCDs) project
EDT / CEST
10:00 / 16:00
Introduction
10:15 / 16:15
Policy Discussion: Methane emissions reporting: identifying blind spots in data collection and addressing challenges in harmonizing global reporting frameworks
11:30 / 17:30
Q&A
11:55 / 17:55
Closing remarks
12:00 / 18:00
Catered Lunch
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