Returning value
to every stakeholder
in the energy transition.
Theaus Carbon is built so that every stakeholder in the transition economy, from the Indigenous communities and asset owners where pathways begin, to the energy users, buyers, and investors they reach, receives real, verifiable value.
Digital Pipeline
The on-chain rails that carry each verified asset from creation through to allocation, traceable end to end.
The Transition Economy
Resources in. Credits out. Value back.
Alberta’s resource base connects to end markets through Theaus Carbon’s infrastructure. Carbon assets move through the platform, and value flows back into Indigenous participation, stewardship, financial assurance, solar, geothermal, and jobs.
The land remains undisturbed.
The partnership makes it durable.
All seven Participating Nations have executed the WSCIO Indigenous Stewardship Framework, joining as structural participants and ongoing stewards of the Program Lands, with Definitive Agreements to follow. Their participation is a structural interest in the Project, not a discretionary benefit. For sequestered oil, the land stays exactly as it is: over 12,000 acres on the Wildwood property preserved with no extraction, no SAGD operations, and no industrial disturbance. For methane abatement, well closure restores land, eliminates ongoing environmental risk, and removes public safety hazards from the communities where wells sit idle.
12,000+ Acres Preserved
The Wildwood sequestered oil project keeps over 12,000 acres of Alberta landscape permanently undisturbed. No extraction. No SAGD. No industrial footprint. The land stays as it is.
Significant Proceeds
Under the sequestered oil program's Stewardship Framework, at least 30% of gross Program revenue is committed to Indigenous participation and stewardship. A structural allocation, not a discretionary benefit.
Executed by Seven of Seven
All seven Participating Nations have executed the WSCIO Indigenous Stewardship Framework, joining as structural participants and stewards of the Program Lands.
Partnership as Permanence
The commitment never to extract the oil is held across multiple independent parties, including the seven Nations as beneficiaries with enforcement rights. Reversal would require all of them to act together. Genuine partnership is the Project's primary permanence safeguard.
Well Closure & Land Restoration
Methane abatement permanently closes wells, eliminates ongoing methane emissions, and restores landscapes. Carbon finance funds the work that public programs cannot reach at scale.
Local Employment & Capacity
Well closure, field measurement, site reclamation, and project execution create direct employment and build capacity in the communities closest to the work.
If you own, or own the rights to, the resource, there may be a pathway.
Alberta holds over 274,000 inactive and abandoned wells with no mandatory closure timeline, the AER’s estimated closure liability of $30B+, and no public funding mechanism operating at the scale required. Capital, not regulation, is the binding constraint on closure timing. Theaus Carbon provides a full-service pathway from asset screening through measurement, verification, credit origination, and market access, all funded through carbon finance with no internal capex required from the operator.
We are also actively exploring pathways for asset owners with environmental attributes at scale beyond methane abatement. If you hold resources where a credible, verifiable, and additional carbon pathway may exist, we want to hear from you. Every conversation begins with the same question: is there a measurable, permanent climate outcome tied to this asset?
Liability Resolution
Retire long-dated abandonment obligations and remove environmental liabilities from your balance sheet. Accelerate remediation timelines without internal capital deployment.
No Capex Required
Carbon finance funds the abandonment execution and project development. Commercial terms are structured per project. Funded through carbon finance and private capital. No public or taxpayer funding, and no spend from the operator.
Full-Service Execution
Theaus Carbon manages the full lifecycle from asset to commercialization: project screening, field measurement, engineering evaluation, well closure and abandonment, verification, credit origination, blockchain tracking, and market access. You provide the asset; we handle the rest.
Policy Alignment
Align with Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy, the March 2026 Canada-Alberta methane equivalency agreement-in-principle, federal methane reduction targets, and Directive 087 Category 3 nonserious-well eligibility.
Methane Risk Reduction
Eliminate ongoing methane emissions and liability from aging infrastructure, reducing environmental exposure and operational risk.
Sequestered Oil
If you hold oil resources, non-extraction may be a more sustainable path than production, given where the world is heading. We are in early conversations with resource holders exploring sequestered oil as an energy transition pathway.
Join Our Roadmap
Owners of mature, inactive, or environmentally sensitive assets across Alberta and Western Canada: reach out to see if your assets qualify for inclusion in our project pipeline.
Credits that survive scrutiny. At scale.
Theaus Carbon carbon assets are designed for organizations with real sustainability commitments, institutional scrutiny, and stakeholders who demand credibility, not just compliance. Every carbon asset is tied to a real Alberta resource with clear jurisdiction, established regulatory frameworks, and rule-of-law protections. Engineering baselines, independent VVBs, and blockchain tracking provide institutional-grade assurance that withstands public scrutiny.
Theaus Carbon carbon assets are built to the highest-integrity bar, with applicable compliance-market designations pursued as those frameworks open.
For organizations evaluating significant CCUS investment, Theaus Carbon carbon assets offer a cost-effective and immediately deployable alternative. Instead of committing billions to capture and storage infrastructure with multi-year construction timelines and unproven economics at scale, verified carbon assets from sequestered oil and methane abatement deliver institutional-grade climate outcomes available now, backed by the same petroleum-engineering discipline used to value producing assets.
AI & Data Centers
Hyperscalers and data center developers with massive and growing energy footprints need high-integrity carbon assets to complement direct decarbonization. Canadian-sourced, engineering-based carbon assets offer defensible procurement at scale.
Energy Companies
Upstream, midstream, and integrated energy companies seeking high-integrity, Canadian-sourced carbon assets for portfolio-level emission reductions and voluntary decarbonization commitments.
Oil Sands Alliance
For oil sands operators evaluating capital-intensive CCUS, Theaus Carbon carbon assets offer a cost-effective alternative to support decarbonization targets. Verified carbon assets backed by real Alberta resources, available now, without billion-dollar infrastructure commitments.
Fully Transparent
Blockchain-enabled lifecycle tracking from issuance through retirement. Full audit trail, no black boxes. Every carbon asset traceable to its PDD, vintage, and verification status through the public Blockchain Tracker.
Multiple Pathways
Methane abatement (physically permanent, scalable across Western Canada), sequestered oil (geologically permanent, 100-year stewardship), and emerging pathways in forestry and material transformation.
Airlines & Aviation
Aviation faces rising voluntary and compliance obligations. Engineering-based permanence and independent verification position these credits to support aviation commitments today, with formal aviation-market designations pursued as frameworks evolve.
A financial asset backed by Alberta’s resource base.
Theaus Carbon carbon assets are asset-backed instruments grounded in measured, quantified Alberta resources: evaluated by leading independent engineering firms under recognized petroleum reserve standards, methane emissions measured by institutional-grade field equipment, and all verified by accredited VVBs under ISO 14064-2. The CFTC classifies carbon assets as a commodity and financial asset, and structural market dynamics favor high-integrity supply as regulatory demand accelerates globally.
Beyond trading, carbon assets can be held on the balance sheet as a real asset and used as collateral, with quality supply positioned to strengthen as high-integrity carbon assets become scarce against accelerating demand.
The infrastructure that restores integrity also creates the conditions for financialization. Independent ratings agencies (BeZero Carbon, Calyx Global, Sylvera) provide project-level quality assessments modeled on traditional credit ratings. Northern Trust provides institutional-grade custody and settlement through the Carbon Ecosystem. As carbon markets mature, Theaus Carbon's carbon assets are designed to support the financial instruments the market will need: spot and forward contracts, futures, securities, and commodity-linked products, all referencing a verifiable, permanent underlying asset with transparent supply. And as carbon assets receive additional ratings, approvals, and compliance designations, the mechanism is built to upgrade, expanding the addressable market and strengthening the asset’s position over time.
Real Asset-Backed
Every credit is derived from independently quantified petroleum resources or measured methane reductions. Over two barrels of oil remain sequestered behind every sequestered oil credit.
Institutional-Grade Verification
ISO 14064-2 aligned methodology, verified by the world's first VVB accredited under the Paris Agreement's Article 6.4 mechanism, conservative discounting with a project-level buffer pool calibrated to the applicable standard, and full chain-of-custody documentation through recognized registries.
Positive Market Dynamics
Potential carbon pricing increases, constrained high-integrity supply, and increasing institutional participation create structural tailwinds for quality carbon assets.
Multiple Access Channels
Northern Trust NTCE for institutional custody, settlement and registry, ICR for registry access, and direct bilateral arrangements. Choose the channel that fits your procurement workflow.
Transparent Supply
On-chain supply is publicly verifiable at all times. Total Credits Outstanding constrained by validated and verified PDD figures. No credit can be created, duplicated, or retired without an auditable on-chain transaction.
Digital Asset Infrastructure
Credits issued as digital assets on the Liquid Network (Bitcoin sidechain) with immutable lifecycle tracking, Transfer Restricted issuance via Blockstream AMP, and public supply verification through the Blockchain Tracker.
The Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada have not endorsed any Theaus project as a policy instrument or regulatory compliance instrument (including under TIER), and nothing on this page should be construed as such endorsement. Any additional requirements for registry or program participation are addressed at the project level.
Market mechanisms that deliver where mandates
have not.
Canada has missed every major climate target since Kyoto; the gap between ambition and execution is a capital and mechanism problem. Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy identified 274,215 wellbores that are marginal, inactive, or decommissioned, with the AER’s estimated closure liability of $30B+ and no mandatory closure timeline. The March 25, 2026 Canada-Alberta agreement-in-principle on methane equivalency targets 75% methane reduction below 2014 levels by 2035 and explicitly includes offset credits in Alberta’s performance-based framework.
We believe our pathways align with TIER, federal carbon pricing, provincial methane targets, and emerging compliance opportunities. Methane abatement converts unfunded liabilities into verified emission reductions. Sequestered oil converts the decision not to extract into a permanent climate outcome, generating economic value for Alberta without a single barrel leaving the ground and without a physical pipeline ever being built.
Verified Emission Reductions
Independently verified emission reductions that could contribute toward Canada's and Alberta's emission-reduction commitments and the new methane equivalency framework. Sequestered oil could also support these commitments, not methane alone. Market mechanisms that deliver real reductions without mandating production curtailment.
Jobs & Workforce
Well closure, field measurement, verification, and project execution create direct employment across Alberta’s energy workforce, with additional job growth in clean energy, solar, and geothermal as transition finance is deployed.
Clean Energy & Geothermal
Proceeds are directed into the energy transition, including renewable power, solar, and geothermal development from repurposed well infrastructure, keeping capital and capability in Alberta.
Resource Value & Economy
Lease revenue and global investment flowing into Alberta's resource base. Sequestered oil generates economic value from the decision not to extract, with no physical pipeline and no extraction required.
TIER & Compliance Aligned
Voluntary markets today, TIER compliance pathways under exploration.
All Local. All Aligned.
Alberta-originated. Independently verified. Policy-aligned. Blockchain-tracked. The Mature Asset Strategy, the Canada-Alberta methane MOU, TIER, and federal targets all point in the same direction. Theaus Carbon builds the mechanism that connects them into the energy transition economy.
Sequestered Oil Policy Fit
A permanent climate outcome generated from the decision not to extract, originated and verified in Alberta, consistent with where policy is heading, and built so it could count toward provincial and federal commitments.
The Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada have not endorsed any Theaus project as a policy instrument or regulatory compliance instrument (including under TIER), and nothing on this page should be construed as such endorsement. Any additional requirements for registry or program participation are addressed at the project level.
Stewardship & Accountability
How proceeds are governed
Theaus Carbon’s stewardship commitments are structurally provisioned, not aspirational. The Stewardship Framework governs how carbon credit proceeds are allocated across long-term obligations, energy transition investments, and community outcomes.
Theaus Global Stewardship Framework (TGSF)
Under the Theaus Global Stewardship Framework, the sequestered oil program commits at least 50% of gross Program revenue: 30% to Indigenous participation and stewardship, and 20% to energy transition (transition finance). During provisioning, up to a further 5% funds permanent financial assurance, bringing the combined allocation to roughly 55%, with the durable commitment being the 50% floor. The Framework also governs administration, funds the long-term obligations that sustain the 100-year sequestration period, establishes the structural basis for Indigenous economic participation, and provides for annual public reporting through the Transition Finance Statement.
There is more in the Framework than the allocation: governance, financial assurance, and long-term reporting. Read the full Theaus Global Stewardship Framework.A 50% floor of gross Program revenue. Sequestered oil program; methane economics differ.
Transition Finance Statement
A public, auditable disclosure of how carbon credit proceeds have been allocated across stewardship obligations, energy transition investments, Indigenous participation and stewardship, and financial assurance. Published annually by May 31. The Transition Finance Statement is a Theaus Global commitment today, with intent to report across the platform later.
The Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada have not endorsed any Theaus project as a policy instrument or regulatory compliance instrument (including under TIER), and nothing on this page should be construed as such endorsement. Any additional requirements for registry or program participation are addressed at the project level.
Theaus Carbon is the energy transition platform under which the methane abatement pathway (delivered through Theaus CH4 Inc.) and the sequestered oil pathway (delivered through Theaus Global Inc.) are developed. These pathways are pursued for voluntary carbon markets. Project documentation is prepared to conform with ISO 14064-2:2019 as a program-neutral foundation, and may be listed or issued under one or more registries or programs where pursued. The Government of Alberta and the Government of Canada have not endorsed any Theaus project as a policy instrument or regulatory compliance instrument (including under TIER), and nothing on this page should be construed as such endorsement. Any additional requirements for registry or program participation are addressed at the project level.