Since early March, nine oil and natural gas producers, utilities and pipeline and storage operators have joined a coalition that pledges to reduce collective methane emissions to 1% or lower.

Our Nation’s Energy Future (ONE Future), with members in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, now numbers 45. As members, each company would report methane emissions and hold a seat on the ONE Future board. 

Privately owned exploration and production (E&P) companies BKV Corp., THQ Appalachia I LLC (THQA) and Jonah Energy LLC, joined in April. 

Denver-based BKV holds assets in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, as well as the Barnett Shale in North Texas. According to ONE Future executive director Richard Hyde, BKV “has grown rapidly to become a Top-20 natural gas...