Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.
Included when supported
Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.
- 01Criterion
Include companies owning or controlling natural-gas reserves or resources recognized under an applicable technical or securities-reporting standard.
- 02Criterion
Include holders of gas exploration, production, mineral, lease, concession, or comparable extractive rights that confer substantive rights to an identified resource.
- 03Criterion
Include undeveloped natural-gas assets where the entity retains a recognized economic resource interest; record development status separately.
- 04Criterion
Include conventional natural-gas reserves and resources, with resource type recorded.
- 05Criterion
Include shale gas, tight gas, coalbed methane, and other unconventional gas reserves or resources, with geology and extraction technique recorded separately.
- 06Criterion
Include diversified or integrated energy companies with documented natural-gas reserve or resource holdings.
- 07Criterion
Include upstream gas reserves contracted to support an LNG project only where the evaluated entity owns or controls the underlying resource right; LNG inventory or capacity alone is not a reserve.
- 08Criterion
Include exploration companies only after an identified gas resource or reserve has been established under a recognized reporting basis and the entity holds the relevant rights.
- 09Criterion
Include acquisitions or investments that transfer direct ownership or control of a natural-gas reserve, resource, or extractive right to the evaluated entity.
Excluded on this basis alone
These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.
- 01Criterion
Exclude transporters, distributors, storage operators, traders, and LNG shippers without direct upstream reserve or extractive-right ownership.
- 02Criterion
Exclude processors and liquefaction operators without direct upstream reserve or extractive-right ownership.
- 03Criterion
Oil Reserve Ownership Without Material Natural Gas Reserves
Defined as: Companies holding crude oil reserves without commercially significant natural gas reserve ownership.
- 04Criterion
Gas-Fired Power Generation Companies
Defined as: Utilities or power producers consuming natural gas without reserve ownership or extraction rights.
- 05Criterion
Exclude service providers, contractors, equipment suppliers, and financiers without direct resource ownership.
- 06Criterion
Exclude assets fully divested, surrendered, expired, abandoned, or written off with no continuing economic right, while preserving historical involvement separately.
- 07Criterion
Exclude prospects, leads, exploration targets, or discoveries that do not meet a recognized economic resource or reserve classification.
Evidence and evaluation methodology
How sources, entity pathways, decisions, qualifiers, and review history are handled.
Map screens to a client policy
How to choose provider screens, document coverage, and decide what happens after an outcome.