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CH4mber
Buyers
Team

A small team that spends most of its time in the field.

We have been surveying orphaned wells since 2024, in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The company is incorporated in Ontario and operates in Oklahoma as a licensed, bonded and insured oil and gas operator.

The people

Oliver Chornous
Co-founder

Oliver Chornous

Formerly a sell-side equity research analyst and an RBC business banker. Leads operations, finance and our work with investors.

Malcolm Cameron
Co-founder

Malcolm Cameron

Founder of three venture-backed companies, including Buy With Impact, which was acquired by RBC. M.Sc. in Statistics. Leads data and strategy.

Mike Ness at an industrial site
Engineering Manager

Mike Ness, P.Eng.

Professional Engineer with more than ten years in oil and gas operations and environmental remediation. Led the technical work on Schnitzer #2.

Natalie Orentlicher
Software and data engineering

Natalie Orentlicher

A decade of experience in environmental science and carbon markets. Works on our software and data.

Chris Logan at a well site
Field surveyor

Chris Logan

Has surveyed wells for us since 2024, finding, testing and measuring leaks at the wellhead.

Ben Parker
Indigenous relations

Ben Parker

Formerly with the BC Utilities Commission. Leads our engagement with the Osage Nation.

In the field, two weeks a month in Oklahoma

  • A Hetek Hi-Flow sampler in its case beside an orphaned wellhead, hose attached, with the CH4mber survey truck behind
  • The survey truck among cattle on the Oklahoma prairie
  • A plugging rig on a well site in open pasture, with a hay bale in the foreground
  • A pressure gauge on a rusted orphaned wellhead
  • A surveyor walking up to an orphaned wellhead under a storm sky
  • A plugging rig against a bright sun
  • An abandoned pumpjack in winter woodland
  • A surveyor measuring a leak with a high-flow sampler beside a pumpjack
  • The Schnitzer #2 wellhead inside a wire fence, as found
  • The survey truck beside a tank battery in pasture
  • An old wellhead standing in a harvested field
  • Plugging day at Schnitzer #2, with the rig on the well

Oklahoma, 2025 and 2026 · survey stops, measurements, and plugging day at Schnitzer #2

02Who we work withProtocol · research · verification · field

The organisations we work with on method, measurement and plugging.

Our field data has been useful to the groups writing and testing methods for orphaned wells, and we rely on specialist partners for verification, instruments and plugging.

  • Isometric
    ProtocolWe are a development partner on their orphaned-well plugging protocol.
  • ACR
    StandardsSat on the working group revising ACR’s orphaned-well method.
  • EDF
    ResearchAcknowledged in EDF’s 2026 orphaned-well primer.
  • RMI
    ResearchResearch on who buys orphaned-well credits.
  • TAQ Energy
    VerificationIndependently verified our first plugged well.
  • Hetek
    InstrumentsMakes the Hi-Flow sampler and detectors we measure with.
  • ORR Energy Services
    PluggingTulsa plug-and-abandon crew, in the field since 1991. They run the rig and cement, and we measure before and after.
  • EcoEngineers
    Field and methodField surveys and methodology advice.
  • New Horizon Energy
    EnergyResearching methane measurement on active wells.
  • NRCNational Research
    Council Canada
    Public fundingCanada’s public research agency, which funds our research and development.

If you would like to see the work for yourself, we are happy to host a visit in Oklahoma.

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