{"id":1014,"date":"2014-04-14T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2014-04-19T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T19:45:12","slug":"methane-leaks-from-pennsylvania-shale-gas-well-during-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/methane-leaks-from-pennsylvania-shale-gas-well-during-drilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Methane leaks from Pennsylvania shale gas well during drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1015\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Marcellus_Shale_Gas_Drilling_Tower_1_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1015\" alt=\"A shale gas well at the Marcellus Shale Formation in Pennsylvania, United States of America. (Credit: Ruhrfisch, Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Marcellus_Shale_Gas_Drilling_Tower_1_crop.jpg\" width=\"1028\" height=\"898\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shale gas well at the Marcellus Shale Formation in Pennsylvania, United States of America. (Credit: Ruhrfisch, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Marcellus_Shale_Gas_Drilling_Tower_1_crop.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Using data from an aircraft survey of southwestern Pennsylvania in June 2012, researchers have shown that shale gas wells in the drilling phase emit between 100 and 1000 times more methane than previously thought. The authors call for an examination of all aspects of natural gas production activity to improve methane inventory estimates and identify possible mitigation solutions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/04\/10\/1316546111.abstract?sid=f3b6d894-cee0-4cc0-9ecf-f407f9a0b737\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>April 14, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/science.purdue.edu\/shepson\/people\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dana R. Caulton<\/a>, Purdue University, United States of America<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from an aircraft survey of southwestern Pennsylvania in June 2012, researchers have shown that shale gas wells in the drilling phase emit between 100 and 1000 times more methane than previously thought. The authors call for an examination of all aspects of natural gas production activity to improve methane inventory estimates and identify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[644,215,623],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-methane"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Marcellus_Shale_Gas_Drilling_Tower_1_crop-e1397936860556.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}