E-1B2b - Natural Gas

This category can be further broken down for reporting purposes into emissions from:

  • 1B2b.i - Exploration
  • 1B2b.ii - Production and Gathering
  • 1B2b.iii - Processing
  • 1B2b.iv - Transmission and Storage
  • 1B2b.v - Distribution
  • 1B2b.vi - Gas Post-Meter
  • 1B2b.vii - Other
  • 1B2b.viii - Abandoned Gas Wells

Note: all of the above are the updated subcategories from (Buendia et al. 2019)1.


  1. Buendia, Eduardo, Kiyoto Tanabe, Andrej Kranjc, Baasansuren Jamsranjav, Maya Fukuda, Sekai Ngarize, Akira Osako, Yurii Pyrozhenko, Pavel Shermanau, and Sandro Federici. 2019. “2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.” 

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