25 Well Pads, One Year, $1.27M Value: How One Alberta Producer Turned Pneumatic Venting into Carbon Offsets

In 2024, an Alberta oil and gas producer engaged Kathairos to eliminate methane venting from pneumatic devices across 25 well pads in the Peace River Arch. Kathairos deployed 25 nitrogen systems over a two-month window, ahead of the 2025 TIER compliance year. Over the following 12 months, the sites generated 13,350 tCO2e in verified carbon offsets under Alberta's TIER program — valued at $1,268,250 at the $95/t TIER price. Kathairos managed the full offset lifecycle: site eligibility review, technology deployment, nitrogen delivery, third-party verification, and serialization. The operator's involvement was limited to supplying pneumatic inventories, gas composition samples, and approving site visit permitting for a randomly selected sample of site visits. This case study details the operator’s experience, including the upfront eligibility screening, deployment timeline, and the steps taken to generate, verify and serialize the offsets from the project.

Learn more about how one Alberta producer turned a two-month nitrogen deployment across 25 well pads into $1.27M in verified TIER offsets — including the eligibility screening, verification process, and serialization timeline. Read the full whitepaper here.

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