Emissions Reporting Discrepancies Reconciled by Implications of Reported Oil Production 

• Emissions reporting in Texas consistently identifies less methane than measured in the atmosphere in reporting areas.  

• Texas regulations allow low volumes of gas production to be emitted without measurement or reporting. 

• Emissions reporting do not include these allowed releases. 

• Estimates of the unreported gas releases corroborate the higher, top-down atmospheric measurements of emissions.