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Climate impacts of oil extraction increase significantly with oilfield age

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  • Mohammad S. Masnadi

    (School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University)

  • Adam R. Brandt

    (School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University)

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The footprint of oil typically considers combustion emissions, neglecting extraction emissions. This study shows that production declines with depletion for 25 significant oil fields, whilst emissions increase through greater energy expenditure.

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  • Mohammad S. Masnadi & Adam R. Brandt, 2017. "Climate impacts of oil extraction increase significantly with oilfield age," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 7(8), pages 551-556, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:7:y:2017:i:8:d:10.1038_nclimate3347
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3347
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    1. Xuwei Tang & Qi Zhang & Chunxin Li & Haitao Zhang & Haiyun Xu, 2023. "The Effects and Driving Factors of Low-Carbon Transition of International Oil Companies: Evidence from a Super-SBM Model," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(1), pages 1-19, December.
    2. González-López, Rafael & Giampietro, Mario, 2018. "Relational analysis of the oil and gas sector of Mexico: Implications for Mexico's energy reform," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 154(C), pages 403-414.
    3. Manfroni, Michele & Bukkens, Sandra G.F. & Giampietro, Mario, 2021. "The declining performance of the oil sector: Implications for global climate change mitigation," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 298(C).
    4. Renaud Coulomb & Fanny Henriet & Léo Reitzmann, 2021. "'Bad' Oil, 'Worse' Oil and Carbon Misallocation," Working Papers halshs-03244647, HAL.
    5. Huang, Chen & Gu, Baihe & Chen, Yingchao & Tan, Xianchun & Feng, Lianyong, 2019. "Energy return on energy, carbon, and water investment in oil and gas resource extraction: Methods and applications to the Daqing and Shengli oilfields," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    6. Jonas S. Solbakken, 2023. "Status of Foam as a Liquid Blocking Agent in Porous Media: A Review," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-32, June.
    7. Yan-Hong Yang & Ying-Hui Shao & Wei-Xing Zhou, 2024. "Contemporaneous and lagged spillovers across crude oil, carbon emission allowance, climate change, and agriculture futures markets: Evidence from the $R^2$ decomposed connectedness approach," Papers 2408.09669, arXiv.org.
    8. Peter Erickson & Michael Lazarus, 2018. "Would constraining US fossil fuel production affect global CO2 emissions? A case study of US leasing policy," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 150(1), pages 29-42, September.
    9. Manfroni, Michele & Bukkens, Sandra G.F. & Giampietro, Mario, 2022. "Securing fuel demand with unconventional oils: A metabolic perspective," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 261(PB).
    10. Duncan McLaren, 2020. "Quantifying the potential scale of mitigation deterrence from greenhouse gas removal techniques," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 162(4), pages 2411-2428, October.
    11. Masnadi, Mohammad S. & Perrier, Patrick R. & Wang, Jingfan & Rutherford, Jeff & Brandt, Adam R., 2020. "Statistical proxy modeling for life cycle assessment and energetic analysis," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 194(C).

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