“EMIT also identified 12 plumes from oil and gas infrastructure in Turkmenistan, some longer than 20 miles.”
NASA bolted a mineral dust sensor to the space station and it found more than 50 methane super-emitters by accident. One plume over the Permian Basin runs two miles. The Turkmenistan sites leak an estimated 111,000 pounds an hour. The oil companies always said they couldn’t find their leaks. Now anyone with a satellite can find them from orbit.