| Room | Time | Title | Speaker | Company | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 09:30-09:50 | Opening keynote: Scene setting with global perspective on needs and drivers | Baroness Worthington | Environmental Defense Fund | United Kingdom |
| Session 1: Current understanding and regulation (Chair: Rod Robinson) | |||||
| 2 | 09:50 | Methane Regulatory Case Study | Ian Kuwahara | Alberta Energy Regulator | Canada |
| 2 | Using Observations to Understand Regional Methane Budgets | Prof Neil Harris | Cranfield University | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Role of shale production in the recent rise in atmospheric methane | Prof Nick Cowern | NC Tech Insight Ltd | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Best practice presentation of European (including Russian) examples for GHG emissions of the natural gas supply chain | Dr Konstantin Romanov | PAO Gazprom | Russian Federation | |
| 2 | 11:00-11:30 | Coffee and Exhibition (11:00-11:30) | |||
| 2 | 11:30 | Short duration, high precision methane flux measurements; Implications for annual CH4 emission reporting and CH4 mitigation strategies | Dr Hugo Denier van der Gon | TNO | Netherlands |
| 2 | Characterising the distribution of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from the natural gas supply chain | Dr Paul Balcombe | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Innovative solutions for abating methane emissions in gas networks | Jesus Manuel Gil Jimenez | Enagas | Spain | |
| 2 | VOC measurements by IR cameras: Operational boundaries and model estimations | Dr John Korsman | DCMR environmental protection agency | Netherlands | |
| 2 | 12:40-13:45 | Lunch and Exhibition | |||
| 2 | 13:45 - 14:10 | Keynote : Industry needs | Gerard Moutet | OGCI | France |
| Session 2: Current capabilities and case studies (Chair: Jan Liebetrau) | |||||
| 2 | 14:10 | Fugitive CH4 emissions, and their source, detected from dissolved fluvial CH4 concentration profiling | Porf Susan Waldron | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Application and validation of tracer dispersion method for quantifying fugitive methane emissions from landfills, wastewater treatment plants and biogas production | Dr Jacob Mønster | FORCE Technology | Denmark | |
| 2 | Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) measurements of landfill methane emissions | Dr Fabrizio Innocenti | National Physical Laboratory | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | 15:00-15:30 | Coffee and Exhibition | |||
| 2 | 15:30 | Quantification and Minimization of Methane Emissions in the Biogas Sector | Dr Jan Liebetrau | DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH | Germany |
| 2 | Methods for Determination of Methane Emissions of the Gas Distribution Grid | Charlotte Große | DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH | Germany | |
| 2 | Identification and validation of methane sources using carbon-13 measurements | Dr Rebecca Fisher | Royal Holloway, University of London | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | A TSO proactive approach to cut down methane emissions | Francis Bainier | GRTgaz | France | |
| 2 | 16:40 - 18:00 | Drinks reception/Posters | |||
| Room | Time | Title | Speaker | Company | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 09:30-09:50 | Opening keynote: State of knowledge on emissions: current and future | Adam Brandt | Stanford University | United States |
| Session 3: Validation of new technologies (Chair: Dave Lowry) | |||||
| 2 | 09:50 | Validating methane measurement techniques | Rod Robinson | National Physical Laboratory | United Kingdom |
| 2 | Validation of fugitive methane fluxes using unmanned aerial vehicles | Dr Grant Allen | University of Manchester | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | An Overview of the New Breed of Methane Sensor Technologies | Prof Daniel Zimmerle | Colorado State University | United States | |
| 2 | Field validation of a novel, near real-time methane monitoring system for vent and leak detection | Matthew Williams & David Butterfield | National Grid | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | 11:00-11:30 | Coffee and Exhibition | |||
| Session 4: Instruments and technology (Chair: Thomas Roeckmann) | |||||
| 2 | 11:30 | Methane source attribution: Methane and Ethane Analysis Using a portable Battery-powered Picarro Cavity Ring-down Spectrometer | Dr Renato Winkler | Picarro Inc | Switzerland |
| 2 | Development of an Open-Path, Laser Dispersion Spectroscopy (LDS) for Methane Emissions Monitoring | Dr Damien Weidmann | MIRICO Ltd | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | A Novel Methane Imaging Camera for Fixed Installations | Amir Gil | CI Systems | Israel | |
| 2 | New sample cell technologies for mid infra red methane detection | Dr Jane Hodgkinson | Cranfield University | United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Biofraction determination of mixed biogenic and fossil methane samples through stable isotope analysis of 13CH4 and CH3D | Dr Craig Richmond | VTT Techincal Research Centre of Finland; | Finland | |
| 2 | 12:50-14:00 | Lunch and Exhibition | |||
| Session 5: Emerging technologies (Chair: Steve Hamburg) | |||||
| 2 | 14:00 | Monitoring Methane Leaks From Space | Dylan Jervis | GHGSat | Canada |
| 2 | Applications and field results for Quantitative Optical Gas Imaging | Prof Andreas Zinssmeister | FLIR | Germany | |
| 2 | A new technique for detecting gas emissions and estimating the locations and mass emission rates of sources | Dr Bill Hirst | Shell Global Solutions International | Netherlands | |
| 2 | Quantification of methane emissions from industrial sites using statistical inversion and a local scale atmospheric transport model parameterized with tracer data | Sébastien Ars | LSCE | France | |
| 2 | 15:10 | Summary of event by Rod Robinson | |||
