Relevant studies have shown that methane gas has a close relationship with seismic activity. The concentration of methane released within a tectonic zone can reflect the intensity status of tectonic activities, which is important for seismic monitori...
Identifying seismic CH4 anomalies via remote sensing has been verified as a legitimate method. However, there are still some problems, such as unknown reliability due to the complex characteristics of seismic anomalies. In this study, a multi-dimensi...
The launch of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on the Sentinel-5 Precursor (S-5P) satellite has revolutionized pollution observations from space. The purpose of this study was to link spatiotemporal variations in TROPOMI methane (CH4)...
Methane (CH4) emissions from dairy farming represent a substantial yet under-quantified share of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. This study provides an in-depth, satellite-based fingerprinting analysis of methane emissions from Canada’s...
The ability to predict the volume of methane outbursts in coal mines is critical for the prevention of methane outburst accidents and the assurance of coal-mine safety. This paper’s central argument is that existing prediction models are limite...
Methane concentration anomalies during coal mining operations are identified as important factors triggering major safety accidents. This study aimed to address the key issues of insufficient adaptability of existing detection methods in dynamic and...
Methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) have long been recognized as an important bioindicator for oil and gas exploration. However, due to their physiological and ecological diversity, the distribution of MOB in different habitats varies widely, making it...
The increasing discovery of underwater methane leakage underscores the importance of monitoring methane emissions for environmental protection. Underwater remote sensing of methane leakage is critical and meaningful to protect the environment. The co...
Seepage of geological methane through sediments of Arctic lakes might contribute conceivably to the atmospheric methane budget. However, the abundance and precise locations of such seeps are poorly quantified. For Lake Neyto, one of the largest lakes...
In 2018–2020 the research vessel (R/V) Professor Logachev (cruises 39 and 41) carried out geological and geochemical studies in the bottom waters of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal fields at 14°45’ N, 13°07’ N, and 13°09’ N. Two new hydrothermal...
This study aims to demonstrate the presence of a pronounced coseismic increase in atmospheric methane concentrations during the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and to examine whether this increase may have originated from underground natural gas relea...
This paper presents in situ methods used in the search for areas of modern hydrothermal activity, as well as the results of their long-term use during cruises within the Russian exploration area of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR). In this study, the fol...
The monitoring of waste disposal sites is important in order to minimize leakages of biogas, produced by anaerobic digestion and potentially explosive and detrimental to the environment. In this research, thermal imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles...
To predict the favorable zones and the types of reservoirs, acid extraction has been used in the Chaoshan depression to detect trace amounts of light hydrocarbons, heavy hydrocarbons, and the δ 13C (‰) of methane. As a result, two integr...
Multifractal Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis (MF-DCCA) was applied to time series of global methane concentrations and remotely-sensed temperature anomalies of the global lower and mid-troposphere, with the purpose of investigating the multifrac...
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. The intensity and distribution of methane source/sink in China are unknown. We collected the column-averaged dry air mixing ratio of CH4 (abbreviated as XCH4 hereafter) from TR...
Our paper deals with gas-geochemical measurements of CH4 and CO2, as well as the first measurements of dissolved H2 and He in the waters of the eastern shelf of Sakhalin Island, obtained during cruise 68 on the R/V Akademik Oparin (OP68) on 12–...
Abstract: Methane is an important greenhouse gas due to its high warming potential. While quantifying anthropogenic methane emissions is important for evaluation measures applied for climate change mitigation, large emission uncertainties still exist...
Coalbed methane (CBM) is the only unconventional gas in Poland with estimated recoverable resources. The prospects for developing deep CBM have been explored in recent years by drilling deep exploration wells within the depocenter of the Upper Silesi...
Overburden rock massifs resulting from open-pit coal mining are very common objects in the world’s mining regions. These locations pose a significant challenge as the global mining industry expands. These dumps are capable of self-burning for q...
The monitoring of wetland methane (CH4) emission is essential in the context of global CH4 emission and climate change. The remotely sensed multitemporal Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) CH4 data and the Breaks for Additive Season and Trend (BFAST...
Widespread submarine hydrocarbon seepage can form complex fluid seepage characteristics, with submarine sediment geochemistry effectively recording seepage activities and fluid component changes due to hydrocarbon seepage. This is crucial for offshor...
Orphaned oil and gas wells represent an important environmental and economic development concern in areas where historical energy exploration and production activity pre-dated regulations on well abandonment documentation practices. From an economic...
As part of an NERC-funded project investigating the southern methane anomaly, a team drawn from the Universities of Bristol, Birmingham and Royal Holloway flew small unmanned multirotors from Ascension Island for the purposes of atmospheric sampling....
Understanding the temporal variability of atmospheric methane (CH4) and its potential drivers can advance the progress toward mitigating changes to the climate. To comprehend interannual variability and spatial characteristics of anomalous CH4 mole f...
Interactive depositional systems of marine carbonates and gypsum salt rocks are closely related to natural gas reservoirs. Despite continuous progress in the exploration of new areas of marine carbonate genesis within the Ordos Basin, the source and...
Gas hydrate provinces occur in two sedimentary basins along Brazil’s continental margin: (1) The Rio Grande Cone in the southeast, and (2) the Amazon deep-sea fan in the equatorial region. The occurrence of gas hydrates in these depocenters was...
In recent years, frequent open biomass burning (OBB) activities such as agricultural residue burning and forest fires have led to severe air pollution and carbon emissions across South and Southeast Asia (SSEA). We selected this area as our study are...
Pyrites are widely distributed in marine sediments, the morphology of which is applied as a proxy to infer the redox conditions of bottom water, and identify diagenetic stages and hydrocarbon leakage activities. In this review, the methods used for t...
On 6 February 2023, a powerful earthquake at the border between Turkey and Syria caused catastrophic consequences and was, unfortunately, one of the deadliest earthquakes of the recent decades. The moment magnitude of the earthquake was estimated to...
Most methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions originate from the biodegradation of organic matter of soils and of degrading permafrost in the Arctic. However, there is limited evidence of the activity of geological sources, and little underst...
The Patras Gulf Pockmark field is located in shallow waters offshore Patras City (Greece) and is considered one of the most spectacular and best-documented fluid seepage activities in the Ionian Sea. The field has been under investigation since 1996,...
This study presents the first application of a deep-towed transmitter–receiver marine controlled-source electromagnetic (TTR-MCSEM) system for gas hydrate exploration in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea. High-resolution electromagnetic da...
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is increasingly recognized as a key technology for renewable energy generation and sustainable waste management within the circular economy. However, its performance is highly sensitive to feedstock variability and environmen...
Siderite and baryte are common non-sulphide phases in sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) deposits, but their formation remains poorly understood. Siderite is important as an exploration vector in some deposits, whereas baryte is important as a S source i...
A comparison between efforts to detect methane anomalies by a simple band ratio approach from the Airborne Visual Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Classic (AVIRIS-C) data for the Kern Front oil field, Central California, and the Coal Oil Point marine hy...
We obtained high-resolution spectra of Jupiter between 4.6 and 5.4 µm using NIRSPEC on the Keck 2 telescope in February 2017. We measured the spatial variation of NH3, H2O, and the pressure level of deep (p > 3 bar) clouds using two geometri...
Addressing the challenge of efficient gas control in high-gas coal mines with ultra-long panels, this study focuses on the No. 8 coal seam in the Baode Mine. A multi-parameter integrated methodology was developed to establish a hierarchical classific...
Observations of the atmospheric sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in the pan-Arctic domain are extremely scarce, limiting our knowledge of carbon turnover in this climatically sensitive environment and the fate of the enormo...
As an environmentally friendly and high-calorific natural gas, coalbed methane (CBM) has become one of the world’s most crucial unconventional energy sources. Undoubtedly, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on reservoir exploration me...