Nigeria - Support to Nigeria for methane mitigation from oil and gas sector

Ongoing

started:

2022

This project responds to the request by Nigeria’s Ministry of Environment, Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission and Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency for services to develop policies and regulations to ensure uptake of recent CCAC-funded Guidelines to mitigate methane from oil and gas sector. It also seeks to strengthen institutional capacity for MRV in oil and gas sector to support implementation of the same guidelines.

Project reference: Nigeria - Support to Nigeria for methane mitigation from oil and gas sector [NG-22-005]

Objectives

This project will deliver by its completion:

The government considers new policies and regulations to ensure uptake of recent CCAC-funded Guidelines.
The government has increased institutional capacity for MRV in the oil and gas sector.
The government and its regulatory agencies have taken action to mitigate methane from the oil and gas sector through the adoption and implementation of regulatory standard in the downstream, mid-stream and up-stream sectors.

What we're doing

The project should deliver at a minimum:

Workshops to sensitize stakeholders on the guidelines and how it should be implemented
Training on the use of COMAT (for all stakeholders e.g., MDAs, Institutions & Private sectors etc) Demonstration of LDAR techniques - Case Study (for all stakeholder Institutions & Private sectors)
A guidance document with an approach to Fugitive Methane Baseline development and Implementation of a Leak Detection and Repair program
A methodology approach and framework for data reporting for methane management