Emission factor from SEMARNAT
Oil transport - Transport by pipeline
Mexico · Fugitive releases · Any year
Value for any year
0.161kgCO₂e/m³ processed
Fugitive releases · GWP100 · IPCC AR6
One value, for any year
SEMARNAT sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2025
Derived by open-climate.ai
- Region
- Mexico MX
- Boundary
- Fugitive releases
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · SEMARNAT terms
Where 0.161 comes from
open-climate.ai adds up the gases SEMARNAT publishes, each weighted by its warming potential.
Reporting this cubic metre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 1 0.161
Gas that escapes from equipment you run is a direct emission, so it is your Scope 1.
The factor, standardised
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Direct emissions › Fugitive emissions and refrigerants · Mexico · per m³ processed · Generic
Fugitive releases · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6
- BoundaryFugitive releasesUnintended releases (leaks, venting, process escapes) attributable to the activity. Learn more
- Fugitive releases
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
- Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from SEMARNAT's AR5 figure of 0.152 kgCO₂e/m³ processed
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
Every horizon, every IPCC report
A warming potential rests on two choices: how many years of warming are counted, and which IPCC assessment report supplies the numbers. SEMARNAT publishes one of these 9 cells; the other 8 read “Not published by SEMARNAT”.
Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specificNot published by SEMARNAT
| Horizon | Report | kgCO₂e/m³ processed |
|---|---|---|
| AR6 | 0.161Default value |
What this number covers
One step: the gas getting out. Nothing before or after it is counted.
Released to the air
Gas escaping from equipment, a process or a container, counted by the mass that gets out.
Included1 m³ processedWarming over 100 years
Heat trapped by that kilogram, compared with 1 kg of CO₂: its GWP100 from the IPCC's sixth report.
Included× 0.161Your record
1 m³ processed of gas released. The factor is per m³ processed that escapes, not per m³ processed held.
= 0.161
Outside this boundary
- Making the gas
- Burning fuel
Producing the gas is a different factor, reported when you buy it (Scope 3, category 1). Fuel burned on site has factors of its own.
A warming potential, not a measurement
Nobody measured this number at a site. It is the warming caused by 1 kg of the gas over 100 years, divided by the warming of 1 kg of CO₂. It is the same wherever the gas escapes.
m³ processed released × 0.161 = kg CO₂e
From SEMARNAT's record to a comparable factor
SEMARNAT publishes the inputs; open-climate.ai computed this value from them. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
About this factor
SEMARNAT gives no description for this factor. Filed under Energía › Subsector explotación, producción, transporte y distribución de hidrocarburos.
Source and licence
- Value
- Computed by open-climate.ai from the gas values in this record
- Publisher
- SEMARNAT (Mexico)
- Library
- SEMARNAT v9
- Record
- Eb12
- Published
- 31 March 2025
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
Calculadora de emisiones para el Registro Nacional de Emisiones (RENE), versión 9 (2025). SEMARNAT, Gobierno de México. Hoja 'Ecuaciones y FE'. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/semarnat/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-semarnat-transporte_petroleo-mx-m3_throughpu-fugitive-a321c5be/?v=efv1-c1477bc6e0448abc84b8115cb72cb0b1
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