Differentiated Gas Coordinating Council (DGCC) Launches

Differentiated Gas Coordinating Council

For Immediate Release 

March 2, 2023 

Contact: info@dgccouncil.com

NEWS: Differentiated Gas Coordinating Council (DGCC) Launches with Leading Academics, Energy Producers, Gas Customers, and Technology Companies Proposing Solutions to Lower Methane Emissions 

WASHINGTON—Today, the Differentiated Gas Coordinating Council (DGCC) launched its official website laying out a comprehensive approach to position differentiated gas as a leading solution to lower methane emissions to meet national and global climate goals. Current DGCC members include Baker Hughes, Clean Connect, EarnDLT, Kuva Systems, Project Canary, PureWest Energy, Sempra Energy, Williams, Xcel Energy, Xpansiv, and COEFFICIENT. 

“Our climate goals can be met with everyday practical solutions,” said Executive Director, Tom Hassenboehler. “Differentiated gas allows us to use existing and innovative technologies that exceed EPA standards to decrease methane emissions while centering U.S. industries as suppliers of natural gas and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.”

Differentiated gas, also known as “certified gas” or “responsibly sourced gas,” is natural gas that is marketed and sold based on its verifiable environmental properties, particularly the intensity of methane emissions throughout the value chain. Through new measurement initiatives, voluntary market certifications, and established transactability, differentiated gas allows the U.S. to lead the world in:  

• Reducing methane emissions, 

• Creating incentives for stakeholders committed to clean natural gas production and transportation to meet their ESG goals,  

• Securing Europe’s energy security and future by promoting U.S.-based industries through differentiated gas and,  

• Reaching corporate and national climate goals with everyday operations.  

The DGCC aims to scale a market for differentiated gas and its specific goals are to:  

• Ensure Regulatory Harmonization 

• Create Certification Neutrality and Interoperability 

• Create Measurement-Based Technology Neutrality 

• Eliminate all Barriers to a Voluntary Market 

• Foster Trust, Transparency, and Transactability 

Since its inception in July 2022, the DGCC has worked to center differentiated gas in critical policymaking and regulatory spaces. More specifically, DGCC recently submitted regulatory comments urging the federal government to accelerate the adoption of advanced methane measurement technologies. Last month, the DGCC submitted comments to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed supplemental methane rule, encouraging the Agency’s efforts to reduce methane emissions, but also highlighting several opportunities for improvement. In January, the Council submitted comments to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed methane waste rule urging the BLM to adopt high-fidelity, measurement-based regulations. Finally, the DGCC provided comments to the EPA’s request for information on the implementation of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program under the Inflation Reduction Act, in which the group outlined a proposed continuous emissions monitoring grant program for oil and gas operators. 

To learn more about the DGCC visit www.DGCCouncil.com, or follow the DGCC on Twitter (@DGCCouncil) and LinkedIn. 

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Established in 2022, the DGCC is an ad hoc coalition of stakeholders across the natural gas supply chain dedicated to expanding the market for low methane, “differentiated” natural gas. Its members include academics; downstream, midstream, and upstream energy producers; gas customers; and technology companies. The DGCC’s goal is to facilitate a federal pathway for state regulators, utilities, and gas consumers to accept differentiated gas as an important option to meet their climate goals. We believe that the adoption of differentiated gas is the best way to rapidly reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector—a win for American energy producers, energy consumers, and the climate.