Cheniere joins UN methane assessment programme

Cheniere Energy said October 19 it had joined the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), the United Nations Environment Programme’s flagship methane emissions reporting and mitigating initiative.

OGMP 2.0 is a comprehensive, measurement-based reporting framework intended to improve the accuracy and transparency of methane emissions reporting.

Cheniere’s participation in OGMP 2.0 is another of the LNG producer’s climate strategy initiatives, alongside collaborative programmes to quantify, monitor, report and verify (QMRV) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its supply chain. QMRV has been initiated at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi liquefaction terminals on the US Gulf Coast, and at natural gas transmission facilities it uses, consistent with the OGMP 2.0 reporting framework.

Cheniere has also begin issuing cargo emissions tags to its customers, which estimate GHG emissions associated with each cargo of LNG.

“OGMP 2.0 is consistent with Cheniere’s climate strategy and actions to utilise technologies to measure emissions across our supply chain, employ empirical data, and be more transparent in reporting those emissions in order to inform actionable methane reduction strategies,” said Anatol Feygin, Cheniere’s executive vice president and CCO. “OGMP 2.0 provides an international platform to share and enhance our science- and data-driven work on methane emissions, so we can continue to provide reliable LNG supplies to the EU and other international markets to support energy security now and the transition to a lower-carbon future.”