Methane Emissions from Unconventional Oil and Gas

Economics

• Shani Harmon, The Economics of Methane Regulation: The Cost-Effectiveness of Regulating Existing Oil and Gas Operations, 30 Nat. Resources & Env’t 23 (2015).

• Arnold W. Jr. Reitze, Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Should Cost Be a Consideration, 30 Nat. Resources & Env’t 3 (2015).
• PA Dept. of Envtl. Prot., Technical Support Document: General Plan Approval and General Operating Permit for Unconventional Natural Gas Well Site Operations and Remote Pigging Stations (BAQ-GPA/GP-5A) and for Natural Gas Compressor Stations, Processing Plants, and Transmission Stations (BAQ-GPA/GP-5) 66, Appendix E (2017).
• Icf International, Economic Analysis Of Methane Reduction Opportunities In The US Onshore Oil And Natural Gas Industries (EDF, 2014).
• Icf International, Economic Analysis Of Methane Emission Reduction Potential From Natural Gas Systems (EDF, 2016).
• Alan J. Krupnick, Methane Emissions in the Oil and Gas Sector: Two Recent RFF Projects (presentation at the RFF-Stanford Woods Webinar series, 2016).
• Alex L. Marten et al., Incremental CH₄ and N₂O Mitigation Benefits Consistent with the US Government’s SC-CO2 Estimates, 15(2) Clim. Policy 272 (2015).
• Alex L. Marten et al., Estimating the Social Cost of Non-CO2 GHG Emissions: Methane and Nitrous Oxide, 11(1) NCEE Work. Pap. Ser. (2011).
• Drew Shindell et al., The Social Cost of Methane: Theory and Applications, 200 Faraday Discuss.  429 (2017).
• Richard S. J. Tol et al., Methane Emission Reduction: An application of FUND, 57 Clim. Change 71 (2003).
• Stephanie Waldhoff et al., The Marginal Damage Costs of Different Greenhouse Gases: An Application of FUND, 8 Econ. Discuss. Pap. (2011).
• Niina Heikkinen, EPA Revises the Social Cost of a Potent Greenhouse Gas, Scientific American (Nov. 20, 2017).
• Levan Elbakidze & Gulnara Zaynutdinova, Substitution in Electricity Generation: A State Level Analysis of Structural Change from Hydraulic Fracturing Technology, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2016 Annual Meeting (July 31-August 2, 2016).
• Chandler E. Kemp, Arvind P. Ravikumar & Adam R. Brandt, Comparing Natural Gas Leakage Detection Technologies Using an Open-Source “Virtual Gas Field” Simulator, 50(8) Environ. Sci. Technol. 4546 (2016).

For more information, please contact the Guide Author, Ekrem Korkut, Research Assistant at The Center for Agricultural and Shale Law.  

Email: EZK137@psu.edu

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