Sindicatum Projects
Low Carbon Energy, US: DEVON, Wyoming
The Devon project was developed to reduce methane emissions that are normally vented from ‘high-bleed’ pneumatic process controllers. The Devon project reduces the methane emissions by retrofitting process controllers with low-bleed devices. This project was certified by the American Carbon Registry in March, 2010, and is expected to generate over 0.7 million ERTs over its life.
This project utilizes the “Mizer” valve, a low-bleed pneumatic controller that can be used to retrofit existing high-bleed controllers to minimize methane leakage at wellheads. Throughout the lifetime of the project, the Mizer valve will be retrofitted onto approximately 2,000 high-bleed controllers at over 1,200 production wells across the Southwestern and Midwestern United States.
Sindicatum has an advisory role on this project. Sindicatum began work on this project in 2009, providing project development advisory and technical support to the developer. In close collaboration from Devon Energy, Sindicatum wrote the ACR Pneumatic Methodology using the Mizer valve, a low-bleed device that reduces the methane emitted from traditional controllers by approximately 90%. In 2010, this methodology was approved by ACR. Sindicatum led the project through the ACR certification process and manages the environmental attributes generated from the reduction of methane emissions.
