TotalEnergies To End Routine Flaring By 2030 … Achieves Zero Routine Flaring …. Targets Reduced Safety Flaring

The multinational oil giant, TotalEnergies, has said it looks forward to attaining the total stoppage of routine flaring by the year 2020.

This is even as the company has achieved a Zero Routine Gas Flaring on both its Joint Venture(JV) and Deepwater installations and operations across Nigeria.

By this, the company becomes the first among the International Oil Companies(IOCs) operating in the country to attain the feat and with the striving towards the reduction of Safety Flaring.

Speaking at the Media Parley to mark the milestone achievement at the Event Centre, TotalEnergies, PortHarcourt Centre, recently, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, TotalEnergies Company in Nigeria, Matthieu Bouyer, said that TotalEnergies, as a global company, was committed to producing more energy but at the same time reduce emissions pointing out that the company was the first Exploration and Production(EP) company in Nigeria to achieve the feat.

Routine Flare-out, the stoppage of continuous gas flaring above the normal safety capacity of an oil and gas facility was an achievement Bouyer described as not just a practical demonstration of TotalEnergies’ commitment to deliver less carbon- intensive energy to it’s customers but aligns with the Nigerian government’s objective to foster a low carbon economy.

According to him, the objective of the project was double-fold including reducing emissions and increasing energy production.

In his words “today is a very special day because it is the day when we officially announce that TotalEnergies has reached Zero Routine Flaring in all it’s operations across Nigeria.

“The objective of this project is double. First, is to reduce our emissions. As a company, our objective is to fully stop routine flaring in the company by 2030. The second objective is to increase energy production. By stopping routine flaring, we are able to valorize the gas, thereby creating value for the country”.

“In the past years, we had 300 to 350 kSm3/d of routine flaring. It has now reduced to zero. This project will save

-340 ktC02e per year, giving a cumulative saving of close to 5.5 MtCo2e until the end of life of the asset.

While highlighting other initiatives taken towards the reduction of emissions within its operations environment and the larger society, he said ” other initiatives revolve around Co2(carbon dioxide) and CH4(methane) emissions reduction in our operations through mobilization of best available technologies”.

The TotalEnergies Country Chair disclosed that all the company’s projects have a mandatory non-routine flaring design saying”the rule is that any new project should improve the emissions intensity of our operations”.

Bouyer further lauded the support and positive collaboration of the Federal Ministry of Environment, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and its Joint Venture partner, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited( NNPCL) towards achieving the feat.