Assessment of gas emissions from oil mines in Romania

¹ National Institute for Research and Development in Mine Safety and Protection to Explosion – INS MEX, 32-34 G-ral Vasile Milea Street, Postcode: 332047, Petroşani, Hunedoara County, Romania
² UVVG Arad, Faculty of Medicine, Arad County, Romania

^* Corresponding author: emeric.chiuzan@insemex.ro

Abstract

Methane is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, and rapid and sustained reductions in methane emissions are key to limiting near-term global warming and improving air quality. The energy sector – including oil, natural gas, coal and bioenergy – accounts for more than 35% of methane emissions from human activity and has some of the best opportunities to cut these emissions. The annually updated Global Methane Tracker is an essential tool for raising awareness about methane emissions across the energy sector and the opportunities to bring them down [7,8,9]. In Romania, there is only one oil mine in operation, Sărata Monteoru, and two oil mines in conservation (Matița and Solonţ). The purpose of these works is to establish the gas emissions regime (methane, its counterparts and carbon dioxide) and the calculation of gas emissions into the atmosphere at the Sărata-Monteoru and Solont oil mines following their classification.