Letter from the Executive Director
“ONE Future members represent roughly 40% of the natural gas value chain, varying in geography and size, but united by one goal: reducing methane emissions. Now more than ever, our coalition’s strength lies in the collaboration between members contributing unique insights and best practices, and helping shape the future of natural gas as a long-term energy source.”
– Jim Kibler, Executive Director
Report Highlights
In 2024, 39 companies provided methane emissions reporting, representing five segments of the natural gas value chain. Overall methane intensity decreased by 15.4%, decreasing from 0.331% in 2023 to 0.280% in 2024.
Ongoing Progress
Despite reaching our goal well ahead of schedule, we are continuously assessing promising tactics and strategies to meet evolving energy needs domestically and globally. We’re demonstrating our commitment to continuous improvement by evaluating the marginal abatement cost of technologies and identifying the most significant opportunities to reduce emissions, all to ensure that natural gas remains a long-term sustainable fuel source for the future.
Based on 2024 methane emissions and throughput, ONE Future’s collective methane intensity is 0.280%.
How We’re Getting There:
Over the past few years, our members have accelerated the deployment of detection and measurement methodologies; increased the use of measurement-informed data; identified and shared best practices in a dynamic environment; and led the way in reinventing natural gas systems, such as the upgrading of pneumatic devices.
We collaborate across the industry.
Since ONE Future’s founding, we’ve partnered with organizations and agencies including the DOE, EPA, GTI Energy, and global partners in Europe and Asia to make progress on our shared goals.
We take a science- and performance-based approach.
Segment-specific methane intensity targets are identified in the ONE Future Protocol to allow member companies to benchmark progress and facilitate comparisons toward methane intensity goals within each segment. These segment methane intensity targets have been scaled to the national level to track progress toward ONE Future’s overall methane intensity goal.
ONE Future members deploy 83 unique methane abatement activities across segments.
Through these 83 unique methane abatement activities, our member companies are leading the way in driving down emissions across the natural gas value chain. Since 2016, ONE Future’s catalogue of abatement strategies and technologies has skyrocketed from 11 to 83 – a sevenfold increase.