Part III: Flare Reduction Project Family - IPIECA

ATTACHMENT 2
CDM PROJECT METHODOLOGIES INVOLVING
FLARING REDUCTION
As of the date of this document, a total of eight projects to reduce gas flaring have been successfully
registered to earn carbon credits under the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism program. All of
these projects have used one of the following approved methodologies pertaining to flare reduction
projects: AM0009, AM0037, and AMS-III.P. Another methodology NM0277, Use of Recovered Gas
from Oil Fields for Gas-Lift to Replace Non-Associated Gas-Lift Gas, was proposed, but not approved
by the CDM Executive Board (EB). The baseline methodology used in support of a Project Design
Document (PDD) submitted to the CDM Executive Board is the blueprint that defines, among other
things, what baseline scenario is appropriate to the circumstances of a proposed project and what must
be included and excluded in the emissions used to represent the baseline conditions and the project
activity.
This Attachment summarizes the history and evolution of AM0009, AM0037, and AMS-III.P, including
the rather extensive revisions to these methodologies that have occurred in just a few years. These
revisions reflect changes to correct errors in previous versions, to incorporate specific features of new
projects that differ in some way from those previously approved under the methodologies, or to reflect
decisions by the Executive Board regarding general changes that should be incorporated by CDM
methodologies of all types. These histories clearly demonstrate the level of effort that is often involved
in applying or adapting the existing methodologies. However, as demonstrated by the fact that so few
methodologies have been approved for flare reduction projects, adaptation or revision of an existing
methodology has been generally found to be preferable to obtaining approval for a new methodology.
Most of the data presented in Table 7-11 below have been taken directly or paraphrased from a series of
excellent information sheets prepared by the firm carbon Limits and distributed at a CDM Methodology
Workshop on Gas Flaring on December 3, 2008 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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