November 2026
In 2025, several audits and inspections were conducted to help improve industry compliance with the methane requirements. Below are some highlights of each of these initiatives.
Audits
Audits are desktop exercises that mainly review information submitted by industry through various reporting programs or direct exchanges that result from interaction with duty holders. The following table provides audit statistics from 2023 to 2025.
Audit Type | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fuel, Flare, Vent and Data Quality (data quality) | 124 | 0 | 175 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Fugitives | 26 | 43 | 74 | 25 | 42 | 42 |
| Missing methane submissions | 76 | 65 | 69 | 76 | 65 | 67 |
| Overall Vent Gas Limit | 19 | 130 | 105 | 16 | 101 | 103 |
| Venting – defined vent gas and crude bitumen fleet average | 26 | 13 | 56 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Pneumatics | 8 | 50 | 95 | 2 | 18 | 34 |
| Compressors | 10 | 14 | 42 | 9 | 14 | 42 |
| Dehydrators | 22 | 8 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 10 |
NNC = notice of noncompliance
Inspections
We conducted 1093 methane inspections in 2025 (see table below). This is a 1% decrease from 1109 inspections in 2024. All issues leading to an unsatisfactory inspection (i.e., one where a notice of noncompliance was issued) were resolved.
| Year | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Methane Inspections | 948 | 1108 | 1230 | 1109 | 1093 |
| Total compliance rate | 75% | 71% | 77% | 77% | 77% |
| Percentage of sites inspected with fugitive emissions | 32% | 25% | 21% | 13% | 16% |
* Previously reported numbers may differ slightly due to updated categorization of audit or inspection types.
