Climate Change: NNPC Ltd/Total Energies JV achieves zero gas flare

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited/TotalEnergies Joint Venture (JV) has achieved zero routine gas flare in all its assets.

This feat was announced on Thursday during an inspection of the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 100 in South-eastern Niger Delta, off Port Harcourt, by a joint NNPC Ltd and TotalEnergies Team.

The Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC Ltd., Olufemi Soneye said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

He said the inspection was to ascertain the success of the OML Flare Reduction Project inaugurated in December 2023.

Accordong to Soneye, the achievement is in pursuit of meeting the targets of 20 per cent (unconditional) and 47 per cent (conditional) greenhouse gas emission reduction.

He said the reduction target was contained in the Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Accord signed by the President Bola Tinubu administration.

“The NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies JV, which is the concession holder of four leases, had hitherto achieved zero routine flaring across OML 99 (2006), OML 102 (2014), and OML 58 (2016), leaving OML 100 as the only lease with routine flaring going on.

“The significance of this achievement is that the last routine flare volume of Twelve Million Standard Cubic Feet Per Day (12MMscf/d) of gas, has now been eliminated giving rise to a greenhouse gas emissions reduction of about 341KtCO₂e/yr.

“The achievement is an outcome of a programme introduced by the NNPC Ltd to galvanise action towards achieving the zero routine flare by 2030 across its portfolio of assets,” he said.

He said the feat achieved was a testament to the NNPC Ltd’s prioritisation of sustainability anchored on the ‘first R’ of its 5R Strategy (Reduce, Replace, Renew, Re-plant, Repurpose), as it strived to reduce its carbon footprint.

According to him, work is ongoing across all other assets within NNPC Ltd’s Upstream Directorate to ensure that all assets achieve zero routine flaring by 2030 or earlier.