High-Integrity Methane Abatement Marginal Wells
Permanent Abandonment of Marginal Oil and Natural Gas Wells in Oklahoma – Project A
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Impacts
Project Information
The project consists of the planned and systematic plugging and abandonment (P&A) of 10 marginal oil and gas wells located in the Tulsa and Pawnee regions of Oklahoma. These wells have reached the end of their productive life and are no longer commercially viable under prevailing market and operating conditions. Field-based methane surveys identified the wells as active sources of fugitive methane emissions, posing ongoing climate and environmental risks if left unmanaged. Project activities began with site-specific baseline methane emissions measurement at each well using calibrated detection equipment operated by qualified measurement specialists. Following baseline confirmation, each well was permanently plugged and abandoned using regulator-approved, industry-standard P&A techniques. This included the installation of engineered cement barriers across hydrocarbon-bearing intervals and regulator-approved surface closure methods (e.g., welded steel cap, blind flange, or equivalent permanent seal) in accordance with applicable state regulations and industry best practices. Post-abandonment verification measurements were conducted to confirm the effective elimination of methane emissions. Where necessary, surface site restoration is undertaken to remove residual infrastructure and stabilize the wellsite. The project is implemented under the guidelines for Methane Emissions Prevention via Permanent Abandonment of Marginal Oil and Natural Gas Wells and is designed to generate real, measurable, and permanent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions over a 10-year crediting period. The project is expected to generate 305,507 tCO₂e of verified greenhouse gas emission reductions over the 10-year crediting period, with 305,507 tCO₂e monitored and verified for the first monitoring period. All project activities, monitoring, and quantification of emission reductions will be validated and verified in accordance with ISO 14064-2:2019, ensuring conformity with internationally recognized principles for greenhouse gas project accounting, transparency, accuracy, consistency, and conservativeness.
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Sustainable Developement Goals
Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Climate Action
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Life on Land
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Additionality
Level 1 additionality
Baseline additionality. Compared to the baseline scenario the project needs to mitigate climate change. That is the project must implement actions that are additional to what would occur compared to the baseline.
Level 2a additionality
Statutory additionality. The project must implement actions that are beyond requirements stipulated in local legislation or regulations. Projects are statutory additional if their implementation and/or operation is not required by any law, statute, or other regulatory framework, agreements, settlements, or other legally binding mandates requiring implementation and operation or requiring implementation of similar measures that would result in the same mitigations in the host country.
Level 3 additionality
Technology, institutional, common practice additionality. The project must implement actions that are subject to barriers of implementation or accelerate deployment of technology or activities and carbon market incentives are essential in overcoming these barriers.
Level 4b additionality
Financial additionality II. The project is financially additional if it faces significant financial limitations that revenues from the sale of carbon credits mitigates or are revenues due to the sale of carbon credits are the only source of revenues. When carbon credit revenues are a precondition for the implementation of the project and/or carbon credit revenues are essential in maintaining the project operations and ongoing financial viability post-implementation, then they are considered to be financial additional II.
Level 5 additionality
Policy additionality. Implementation of actions may lie out of the scope of the host country's Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and, therefore, not eligible for international transfer mechanism. When project implementation goes beyond its host country’s climate objectives and lies outside of the scope of its climate action strategy towards its NDCs, it is considered to be policy additional.
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Organizations involved in the project
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