Private exploration and production (E&P) operator Poco Holdco LLC received Project Canary’s highest possible environmental assessment rating for most of its Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin operations in Colorado. 

The E&P, a branch of private energy investment and management company Providence Energy Ltd., clinched Denver-based Project Canary’s “Platinum” certification for 22 operated horizontal wells at two wellsites. 

“Poco’s facilities have been engineered to minimize our carbon footprint and materially reduce or eliminate methane emissions through our innovative facility design and direct delivery of products to underground pipelines,” said COO Frederick Witsell.

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