Global Methane Emitters Tracker

The Global Methane Emitters Tracker (GMET) provides estimates of methane emissions at coal mines, natural gas pipelines, oil and gas drilling sites and reserves, and liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals across the globe. GMET also connects a subset of high-resolution, publicly detected satellite methane plumes to specific facilities, offering a clearer picture of where emissions are coming from. In addition, GMET tracks coal mine methane mitigation (CMM) efforts around the world, helping to highlight both the scale of the problem and what is being done to address it.

Building on GEM’s Global Coal Mine Tracker, Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker, and Global Oil & Gas Extraction Tracker, GMET has become the largest publicly available database offering asset-level methane emissions estimates for coal mines—and the only one to provide asset-level estimates for proposed gas pipelines and LNG terminals.

New in Fall 2025, GEM analysts reviewed every publicly available high-resolution methane plume detected by public satellites and plane flights near coal mines in GEM’s database. Data in GMET now includes the specific type of mining equipment at these facilities associated with these plumes.

In Spring 2025, GMET released methane emissions estimates for proposed oil and gas extraction areas along with a briefing. A similar companion sheet for coal mine methane mitigation projects details the type and status of infrastructure used by coal mine operators around the world to reduce their emissions accompanies the GMET download (see download link below).

In addition to proposals, GMET also links existing oil and gas extraction sites listed in GEM’s Oil & Gas Extraction Tracker to the methane emissions estimates developed by Climate TRACE (2022).

GMET data is available to download and is viewable through an interactive map and aggregate summary tables. Each coal, oil and gas asset in GMET is linked to a separate factsheet on GEM.wiki that provides references and further background. More information on GMET’s methodology can be found on the GEM.wiki site.

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