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AM0055 — Recovery and utilization of waste gas in refinery or gas plant

About this methodology

Projects recover waste gas that would otherwise be flared and use it for process heat. The method measures emissions avoided by replacing other fuels.

Issued by
CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
Version
2.1.0 · source ·
Status
Active at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions
Activity
Oil refining
Official page
cdm.unfccc.int ·
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How methodology v3 reads projects of this type

What CarbonMeld reads

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    Grid emission factor: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases. CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AM0055-GRID-EF

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  • A confirmed investment analysis A-INVEST

    The documents show a project-level additionality test, the validation confirmed it, and it is an investment analysis (a numeric test of the project's finances with and without carbon revenue).

Set by the methodology or the programme, not assessed by our current method

  • not assessed

    Tracking of the end use: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases (AM0055 v02.1.0 applicability, p. 2). Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AM0055-END-USE-TRACKING

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  • not assessed

    Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): any such rules come from the programme, not the methodology. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AM0055-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC

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  • A methane activity the law requires A-LEGAL

    The rule applies to projects that capture or avoid methane. These are landfill gas, manure, wastewater, composting and coal-mine methane. They also include orphan wells, oil and gas leaks, rice, enteric methane and household biogas. The documents state that the law requires the activity. Or the documents state that a law requires the capture of the gas. An activity that the law already requires is not additional. If the documents show that the baseline already deducts the amount that the law requires, CarbonMeld takes no point.

Not applicable to this type — never a gap in our current method

The criterion does not apply to this methodology. Our current method never counts it as a gap.

The general rules apply as well. Read the general rules.

The rules of methodology v2.2, as they were: the archived v2.2 page.

History and transitions

All 5 versions

  • v02.1.0adopted 13 Sept 2012source

    Amendment to: Expand the applicability to include waste gas recovery from gas plants; Change the title from “Recovery and utilization of waste gas in refinery” to “Recovery and utilization of waste gas in refinery or gas plant”.

  • v02.0.0adopted 3 Jun 2011source

    Simplify the methodology by removing the requirement to quantify the impact of the project activity on the efficiency of element processes. Instead, emission reductions are determined based on a conservatively chosen baseline emission …

  • v01.2adopted 16 May 2008source

    “Tool to calculate baseline, project and/or leakage emissions from electricity consumption” replaces the withdrawn “Tool to calculate project emissions from electricity consumption”.

  • v01.1adopted 10 Oct 2007source

    In equation (5) variable "EFphf_B" is changed to "EFphf_BL", to make it consistent with the same variable used and defined in equation (3).

  • v01adopted 27 Jul 2007source

    Initial adoption.

Projects using AM0055

Browse 8 published projects using AM0055, listed alphabetically. There is no ranking for this methodology yet: it appears here automatically once 5 of its projects not in the pipeline or under validation are rated. Open a project to view its registry details and the analysis available for that project.

Which registries list projects under AM0055?

In CarbonMeld's data, AM0055 projects are on 2 registries: CDM (7) and Global Carbon Registry (1). Being listed on a registry is not the same as being registered: the «Registered» column counts the projects each registry shows as registered, and credits are issued only after each verification.

RegistryProjectsRegisteredProjects list
CDM (UNFCCC)76See the list
Global Carbon Registry (GCR)10See the list

Counts of project records in CarbonMeld's data, with or without a CarbonMeld analysis. «Registered» counts the records whose current registry status is «registered», as last read (15 November 2026); projects in a later status, such as awaiting verification approval, late to verify or completed, are not in that column.

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