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Mary Kang
Researcher at McGill University
Publications - 36
Citations - 905
Mary Kang is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fossil fuel & Methane. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 24 publications receiving 539 citations. Previous affiliations of Mary Kang include Princeton University & Stanford University.
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Direct measurements of methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania
Mary Kang,Cynthia M. Kanno,Matthew C. Reid,Xin Zhang,Denise L. Mauzerall,Michael A. Celia,Y. Chen,Tullis C. Onstott +7 more
TL;DR: The first methane emission measurements from abandoned oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania were conducted and found substantial emissions, particularly from high-emitting abandoned wells, indicating that the emitted methane is predominantly of thermogenic origin.
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Identification and characterization of high methane-emitting abandoned oil and gas wells
Mary Kang,Shanna Christian,Michael A. Celia,Denise L. Mauzerall,Markus Bill,Alana R. Miller,Y. Chen,Mark E. Conrad,Thomas H. Darrah,Robert B. Jackson +9 more
TL;DR: Analyzing historical and new field datasets to quantify the number of abandoned wells in Pennsylvania, individual and cumulative methane emissions, and the attributes that help explain these emissions shows that methane emissions from abandoned wells persist over multiple years and likely decades.
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Salinity of deep groundwater in California: Water quantity, quality, and protection.
Mary Kang,Robert B. Jackson +1 more
TL;DR: These findings provide the first estimates, to the knowledge, of underground sources of drinking water depths and volumes in California and show the need to better characterize and protect deep groundwater aquifers, which are vulnerable to contamination from oil/gas and other human activities.
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The Depths of Hydraulic Fracturing and Accompanying Water Use Across the United States
TL;DR: Because hydraulic fractures can propagate 2000 ft upward, shallow wells may warrant special safeguards, including a mandatory registry of locations, full chemical disclosure, and, where horizontal drilling is used, predrilling water testing to a radius 1000 ft beyond the greatest lateral extent.
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Concurrent variation in oil and gas methane emissions and oil price during the COVID-19 pandemic
David Lyon,B. Hmiel,Ritesh Gautam,Mark Omara,Katherine A. Roberts,Z. Barkley,Kenneth J. Davis,Natasha L. Miles,Vanessa C. Monteiro,Scott J. Richardson,Stephen Conley,Mackenzie L. Smith,Daniel J. Jacob,Lu Shen,D. J. Varon,Aijun Deng,Xander H. Rudelis,Nikhil Sharma,Kyle Story,Adam R. Brandt,Mary Kang,Eric A. Kort,Anthony J. Marchese,Steven P. Hamburg +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present airborne and ground-based data, supported by satellite observations, to measure weekly to monthly changes in total methane emissions in the United States' Permian Basin during a period of volatile oil prices associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.