Our Vision — Avir Carbon

This is a platform play, not a project.

Most carbon abatement efforts are structured as one-off projects: a single site, a single credit issuance, a single exit. That model cannot address the scale of the problem, and it cannot deliver the kind of returns that institutional capital requires.

Avir Carbon is structured differently. We are building the systems, the methodology, and the operational capacity to work across hundreds of sites over time. Each well we plug and measure adds to a growing, verified inventory. Each credit issuance strengthens the dataset that supports the next.

The goal is a durable platform with compounding operational advantages, not a one-time transaction dressed up as a company.

11,000+ Documented orphan wells in Texas alone

80x Methane's warming potency versus CO₂ over 20 years

Private capital The only path to execution at speed and scale

We stopped waiting for the market to solve its own problem.

For years, the orphan well abatement market has been held back by a familiar pattern: fragmented standards, slow-moving third-party certification bodies, and a general reluctance to commit capital to a process that hasn't been fully defined.

We chose a different path. Avir Carbon is developing its own measurement and verification methodology, built from the ground up with full-time technical and capital resources. We are not waiting for consensus. We are forcing the issue by doing the work ourselves, committing the resources, and establishing the standard through execution.

This means our process is ours. The data we generate, the sequencing we develop, and the verification framework we build belong to the platform. That is a competitive advantage that cannot be acquired off the shelf.

Abandoned wells are the most undercapitalized climate problem in the country.

Orphan oil and gas wells leak methane continuously, silently, and without consequence, because the companies that drilled them no longer exist. The regulatory infrastructure to address them is underfunded. The voluntary carbon market has been too slow to certify and monetize the credits that abatement produces.

The result is a massive inventory of verifiable emission reductions that the market has not yet reached. That gap between the problem and the capital willing to close it is where Avir Carbon operates.

We are not solving a theoretical problem. We are deploying capital, operational staff, and technical resources against a documented, measurable inventory of emissions, with a clear path to verified credit issuance and institutional monetization.

Built by operators, not theorists.

The Avir Carbon platform is led by founders with direct experience in private credit, capital allocation, and commercial real estate. The team brings a capital allocator's discipline to an operational problem: identify the asset, sequence the work, verify the output, deliver the return.

Meet the founders

Yehuda Velkovich & Daniel Hudson