Archives: Emissions

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Methane Monitoring: Carleton Research Team Transforms Ways Oil and Gas Sectors Measure and Mitigate Emissions

To meet Canada’s goal of reducing methane emissions by at least 40 per cent by 2025, federal and provincial governments are rolling out regulations to fix methane leaks on oil and gas facility equipment. A big challenge, however, is to know exactly which equipment is leaking the invisible... More

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

EERL’s research on measuring methane emissions featured on CBC news

The Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL) recent publication has quantitatively and transparently tested a new airborne LiDAR technology developed by Bridger Photonics Inc., which has the potential to transform how oil and gas sector methane sources are detected, quantified, and mitigated. The federal government has made big investments in... More

Thursday, April 1, 2021

New EERL Publication Details Blinded Study of Novel Airborne Methane Source Detection Technology

In a new publication appearing in the prestigious journal Remote Sensing of Environment, the Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL) has quantitatively and transparently tested a new airborne LiDAR technology developed by Bridger Photonics Inc., which has the potential to transform how oil and gas sector methane sources are detected,... More

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Post Doctoral Fellowships Positions

The NSERC FlareNet Network is accepting applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to contribute to large-scale wind tunnel experiments to quantify carbon conversion efficiencies and pollutant emissions from gas flares found that are common in the global oil and gas industry.  This research is a central part of the NSERC FlareNet strategic... More

Thursday, August 1, 2019

FlareNet Team Works to Minimize Gas Flaring in Ecuador

Engineering Solutions to Minimize or Eliminate Gas Flaring Armed with equipment and assisted by Ecuador’s state oil company, Johnson and his team went off in search of the lighters—flares at the end of gas pipelines—to find out what exactly was being burned. Johnson, who is known for his experimental research methods for measuring emissions... More

Saturday, June 15, 2019

EERL Publication Highlights Enhanced Climate Implications of Flare Black Carbon

The radiative forcing effect of black carbon (BC, suggested to be second only to carbon dioxide) is highly sensitive to its source location and therefore atmospheric lifetime. For example, BC emitted in the Amazon rainforest is likely to be quickly rained out of the atmosphere while wintertime BC emitted in the Siberian Arctic is... More

Friday, June 14, 2019

New EERL Publication Details a Technique that Could Enable Real-Time Quantification of Fugitive Leaks

As a follow-up to previous work, Ph.D Graduate Carol A. Brereton and Prof. Matthew Johnson, along with co-author Lucy J. Campbell from the Mathematics and Statistics Department at Carleton University, have published a new research paper in Atmospheric Environment: X that investigates a technique that could enable near real-time detection and... More

Thursday, December 20, 2018

FlareNet Research Team Conducting First Systematic Experiments to Evaluate Impact of Turbulent (Gusting) Winds on Flare Efficiency

FlareNet is currently running its initial flare experiments at the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at Western University in London, Ontario. The main focus of this research under Theme 3 of FlareNet, is to complete the world’s first systematic experiments quantifying the impacts of wind turbulence scale and intensity on emissions from flares. The... More

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Carleton Researchers Determine Mitigating Alberta Methane is Surprisingly Cost-Effective, Far Cheaper than Carbon Price Targets

A study published today by Carleton University’s David Tyner and Matthew Johnson in the prestigious journal Environmental Science and Technology reveals broad opportunities to mitigate methane emissions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry in a cost-effective way. Through detailed analysis of mitigation potential at nearly 10,000 individual... More

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Reducing Methane Emissions, Carleton Symposium Tackles the Problem

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Monday, October 16, 2017

FlareNet Team Makes its First-Ever Measurements During a Flare Flowback Event in Canada

This past summer the FlareNet Network worked with its Board of Directors and industry partners to facilitate site access for field measurements in Canada.  As a result, FlareNet researchers have just returned from its first-ever dedicated field measurement campaign during a flowback event at a well site in Alberta.  The team successfully... More

Monday, February 27, 2017

Matthew Johnson discusses “scientifically flawed” Fraser Institute report on coal and clean air in Ontario

Experts say Fraser Institute report on coal and clean air is "scientifically flawed" National Observer, February 22, 2017 By Elizabeth McSheffrey The Ontario government is fiercely disputing the validity of a recent Fraser Institute report claiming that phasing out coal-fired power plants across Ontario yielded only “small improvements” in air... More

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