Dr Kaydy Pinetown and I just gave a workshop on methane – from its formation, to measurement, to in-ground assessment to fugitive emissions and the legislation governing that.
Tim teaching workshop at the 42nd TSOP Meeting in Beijing, China
We were at the 42nd Annual Meeting of The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) in Beijing, China. TSOP is the premier international organisation that looks at all things organic in the geological cycle (so from modern peat, to coal geology, from geochemistry to petroleum, from paleoclimate to paleoecology.
If you are a sedimentary geologist or geochemist and you are not looking at the organics, you’re missing a lot of the story. Our workshop addressed how methane is formed, stored, moved, and emitted from organic rich rocks. The workshop also specifically addressed how methane is measured, quantified and regulated; the last from an Australian perspective (think National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting – NGER; and the Safeguard Mechanism).
Schematic of how methane and capacity changes with burial and uplift (from Moore, 2012).
If you want to understand the geological methane system, how that is being regulated and what that means for the coming year, join us for the next TSOP in South Africa or maybe somewhere here in Australia!
NGER and how assessments and reporting must be done.
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