Studies

RMI Publications
- New Climate Tools for Financial Institutions: Methane Data Transparency for Targeted Investments
- Coal vs. Natural Gas
- Evaluating net life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions intensities from gas and coal at varying methane leakage rates
- Reality Check: Natural Gas’s True Climate Risk
- Oil Price Benchmarks Are Missing One Thing: The Climate Cost
- OCI+ Update: Tackling Methane in the Oil and Gas Sector
- Intel from Above: Spotting Methane Super-Emitters with Satellites
- Two Major Oil and Gas Emissions Trends Revealed by Climate TRACE This Year
- Know Your Oil and Gas
- Climate TRACE Lifts the Veil on Oil and Gas Emissions
- Russia is Heating Up—Cutting Methane from Oil and Gas is the Cure
- It’s Time for California to Face Its Dirty Oil Problem
- For Emissions Monitoring, Satellites Shouldn’t Fly Solo
External Publications
- No Standard Oil
- Global Carbon Intensity of Crude Oil Production
- Carbon intensity of global crude oil refining and mitigation potential
- Multi-satellite Imaging of a Gas Well Blowout Enables Quantification of Total Methane Emissions
- Methane emissions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: evaluation of national methane emission inventories and 2010–2017 sectoral trends by inverse analysis of in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH₄ ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) atmospheric observations
- Updated Global Fuel Exploitation Inventory (GFEI) for methane emissions from the oil, gas, and coal sectors: evaluation with inversions of atmospheric methane observations
- A Gridded Inventory of Canada’s Anthropogenic Methane Emissions
- 2018 World Energy Outlook 2018 (Chapter 11)
- Closing the methane gap in US oil and natural gas production emissions inventories
- Climate-wise Choices in a World of Oil Abundance
- Changing Oils, Changing Management
- Techno-Economic Evaluation of Technologies to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions at North American Refineries
- Updating the U.S. Lifecycle GHG Petroleum Baseline to 2014 with Projections to 2040 Using Open-Source Engineering-Based Models
- The Oil-Climate Index: Assessing GHG Emissions Impacts Across the Oil Value Chain
- Energy Return on Investment (EROI) for Forty Global Oilfields Using a Detailed Engineering-Based Model of Oil Production