How Carbon Markets Work
Carbon markets allow organizations, companies, and individuals to offset their emissions by purchasing credits from verified reduction or removal projects.
Each credit represents one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO₂e) that has been avoided, reduced, or removed from the atmosphere.
Methane abatement projects, like the plugging of high-emitting oil and gas wells, generate some of the highest-impact credits available because methane’s short-term climate potency is more than 80 times that of CO₂.
Methane Abatement Credits
Plugging idle and orphaned wells prevents continuous methane release — an immediate and quantifiable climate benefit.
Each project is monitored, verified, and registered using third-party protocols to ensure accuracy and transparency.
Dry Creek Environmental works with BCarbon, a nonprofit carbon registry and climate research center that emerged from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Guided by a mission to quantify and verify climate benefits through a transparent, science-based approach, BCarbon provides the framework that ensures each methane abatement credit reflects real, measurable impact.
Why It Matters
Methane abatement credits align environmental performance with financial value. By monetizing verified emission reductions, carbon markets unlock new capital to fund well-plugging at scale, turning environmental liabilities into assets that benefit landowners, operators, investors, and the climate.
Our Commitment to Integrity
Dry Creek Environmental supports only high-integrity carbon credits — credits that are measurable, verifiable, and additional.
Our projects adhere to independent third-party verification, public transparency, and permanent methane elimination.
Each credit tells a clear story: where it came from, what it prevented, and how much verified value it delivered.