FELDA Biogas Plant (Methane Recovery and Utilisation) at Sungai Tengi Palm Oil Mill, Malaysia

Audit Analysis

The FELDA biogas project at Sungai Tengi Palm Oil Mill has a VVB-confirmed investment additionality test and a measured project-specific baseline, but the available record is limited to validation-era documents with no monitoring reports. A ten-fold discrepancy in the claimed emission reduction figure between the PDD and the validation report, combined with an internal leakage-justification contradiction and twenty material findings, significantly undermines confidence in the project's data integrity and the reliability of its credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Ten-fold discrepancy in total claimed emissions reductions: the PDD states 267,106 tCO₂e while the validation report states 26,711 tCO₂e — a factor-of-ten difference that cannot be reconciled from the available documents and raises serious data-reliability concerns.
• ⚠Internal contradiction within the PDD on leakage treatment: one section describes leakage as 'deemed negligible' while another refers to it as 'quantified,' leaving the actual leakage methodology ambiguous.
• ⚠Twenty material findings and corrective actions were raised during validation, including missing equipment specifications, incomplete project-boundary description, and unsupported financial-analysis assumptions, indicating the PDD required substantial revision before approval.
• ⚠No monitoring reports, verified emission figures, or post-validation data are present in the extracted record, making it impossible to confirm whether the project delivered its claimed reductions.

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.