Crude · products · LNG · EU Methane Regulation

From 2030, a cargo that cannot evidence its intensity cannot be sold into Europe.

Article 30 of the Methane Regulation required the Commission to have the EU Methane Transparency Database running by 5 February 2026; it was not, and launch has been reported for September. From 2027 new import contracts must show measurement, reporting and verification equivalent to EU producer standards. Intensity reporting follows in 2028, and maximum intensity thresholds in 2030 — at which point this stops being a reporting question and starts deciding what can be traded.

Equivalence attaches to the molecule, not to the company holding it — so it reaches producers, traders, refiners, shipowners and the people financing them, in different ways. The questions below adapt to which of those you are, and tell you which obligations are open and which falls due first.

Your operation

This decides which questions are worth asking you at all.

This drives almost everything — exposure follows the molecule, not the company.

Measurement and reporting

Only relevant if you import into the EU or sit in an LNG chain.

Why this is built the way it is

Three constraints, chosen because the alternative in each case is a tool that reads well and cannot be trusted.

Nothing you enter leaves your browser

There is no server and no request. Your compliance posture is commercially sensitive, and you should not have to hand it to a stranger to find out where you stand. Check the network tab.

Every obligation cites its source

You can follow each one back to the regulation or the framework it comes from. A requirement nobody can attribute is worse than a requirement left out.

Nothing is quantified that cannot be cited

No modelled fine exposure, no estimated savings. The rules carry their own numbers and dates; anything beyond those would be a guess wearing a decimal point.

The assessment is the easy part.

Closing a measurement and verification gap is a data problem before it is an engineering one: source-level inventories reconciled against site measurement, survey and repair evidence an auditor can follow, supplier data arriving in a usable shape, and reporting that assembles itself rather than consuming a team each cycle. That is the kind of system CM Solutions builds.