Project Canary

Olympus Energy LLC, which also has a midstream arm, has become the first integrated natural gas producer to independently certify its natural gas, according to management. The Pennsylvania-based exploration and production company focuses on upstream and midstream natural gas resources in the Appalachian Basin. Subsidiary Hyperion Midstream also  gained verification for its gas emissions, both…

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. …

PureWest Energy LLC, which develops natural gas reserves in Wyoming’s Green River Basin, has clinched an agreement to provide 30,000 MMBtu/d of independently certified supply to a West Coast end-user.  The Denver producer did not provide details about the end user or the pricing mechanism. However, the “one-year agreement is priced at a premium to…

Southwestern Energy Co. said Friday that it was reinforcing its long term flow assurance to U.S. LNG facilities by adding 500 MMcf/d of new firm transportation starting in 2024. The transport to the Gulf Coast liquefied natural gas corridor would be on Momentum Midstream LLC’s 1.7 Bcf/d New Generation Gas Gathering system and DT Midstream…

Olympus Energy LLC has become the latest exploration and production (E&P) firm to claim the distinction of producing 100% certified natural gas after an analysis by Project Canary. Pittsburgh independent Olympus operates around 100,000 net acres with more than 10 producing wells in Marcellus, Utica and Upper Devonian plays of southwestern Pennsylvania.  Olympus COO Mike…

Project Canary announced in early May it has produced a measure for the impact from oil and natural gas operations on local water supplies in a study published alongside Colorado State University (CSU). The Denver-based independent natural gas certifier’s Fresh Water Replacement Ration (FR2) has already been applied to some of Project Canary’s partners’ responsibly…

Thailand’s Banpu Kalnin Ventures Corp. (BKV) and BKV-BPP Power LLC are working to certify natural gas produced in the Lower 48 initially to fuel a power plant in Central Texas. Denver-based exploration and production (E&P) company BKV purchased the Temple I power plant north of Austin for $430 million in November with Banpu Power US…

More Lower 48 producers and increasingly, midstream operators, are looking to Project Canary to earn environmental certification for their natural gas supplies. Related entities Tug Hill Operating LLC and XcL Midstream Operating LLC, which principally operate in West Virginia’s Marshall and Wetzel counties, have partnered to gain the responsibly sourced gas (RSG) designation across all…

A natural gas certification pilot is set to begin this month at Tokyo Gas Ltd.’s properties in the Haynesville Shale of Texas and Louisiana as part of an agreement with Project Canary. Under the pact announced Monday, Project Canary would install continuous emissions monitors and carry out its proprietary TrustWell operational certification on several well…