Flare Gas Recovery system (FGRS) at Barauni Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Audit Analysis

A CDM flare-gas recovery project at a major Indian refinery with a VVB-confirmed barrier additionality test and a measured project-specific baseline. However, five material findings and five corrective actions raise concerns about the robustness of the additionality barrier and baseline methodology, and the 0% leakage deduction is supported by contradictory justifications across documents. The project delivered roughly 340% of the pro-rata ex-ante expectation for the first monitoring period, suggesting a conservative baseline, but key MRV parameters (FNRB, usage monitoring, verified ERR) are absent from the extracted record.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Material finding CAR 3 questions whether compressor tripping due to high liquid level is truly a prohibitive barrier, undermining the additionality claim
• ⚠Five corrective actions remain open, including substantiation of the energy-recovery threshold for small-scale eligibility and clarification of the IFO emission factor
• ⚠Leakage justification is contradictory: the validation report (2009) states 'deemed negligible' while the monitoring report (2010) states 'quantified', yet the deduction is 0% in both
• ⚠Total verified ERR is not stated in any available document; only the claimed figure of 5,783.21 tCO2e (monitoring period) and the ex-ante estimate of 11,968 tCO2e (validation report) are available
• ⚠No buffer pool, permanence mechanism, or reversal-event tracking is documented for the 10-year crediting period

Credit Vintages

No issuances recorded on the registry.