Methane Observatory unveiled third annual report at COP28 – Uniper Energy Storage again successfully achieved gold standard

 

Uniper Energy Storage reported in 2020, 2021 and 2022 the majority of its methane emissions from operated assets based on OGMP 2.0 standards and achieved level 4 in reporting quality, meaning to have fulfilled Gold Standard qualification in all three years and further has already successfully achieved substantial emission reductions compared to the base year 2015.

Based on its solid operating experience, acquired over several decades through its predecessor companies, Uniper Energy Storage identified the importance of methane emission reductions early on and even became a launching member of the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0 in 2020.

„OGMP 2.0 was engineered to evolve, ensuring that the programme could move from aspiration to practice, while remaining steadfast in its theory of change and embracing the differing starting points of individual members’ journeys to reduce methane emissions.“

(Quote 2023 IMEO report “AN EYE ON METHANE, The road to radical transparency”)

Background

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), with support from the European Union, launched  the Observatory to drive action on achieving reliable methane emission data and reducing emissions of methane which is a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for at least a quarter of the current climate warming. The International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO) was launched at the G20 Summit, on the eve of the latest round of climate talks, known as COP26 in Glasgow.

IMEO already improved the reporting accuracy and public transparency of human-caused methane emissions. IMEO focuses on methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, and further expand to other major emitting sectors like agriculture and waste.

Uniper´s achievements so far

We are committed to monitor closely our methane emissions, to record them in accordance with aligned, reliable and comparable methodologies and actively promote the OGMP 2.0 reporting framework with its Joint Venture partners for non-operated assets. Furthermore, we have been able to significantly increase the reporting quality of emissions almost at level 4 reporting standard.

Uniper Energy Storage reported 240 tons of methane emissions in 2022 of all operated assets. So it stays with the already submitted absolute reduction target which is to reduce the methane emissions of active and self-operated assets by 45% compared to 2015 until 2025.

Further activities

Uniper Energy Storage among other companies supports a project of the European Gas Research Group (GERG) for the qualification and further improvement of source and site measurement devices in “bottom up” and “top down” measurement campaigns to improve knowledge on how to reconcile quantification of source- and site-level methane emissions at midstream sites. Tests included 11 different cutting-edge technologies and took place at a transmission compressor station in Belgium and a storage compressor station in Spain.

Find the whole report here.

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International Methane Emissions Observatory

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