Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture (JV) has achieved zero routine gas flare across its assets in pursuit of meeting 20 percent unconditional and 47 percent conditional greenhouse gas emission reduction targets contained in the Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Accord signed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration.
NNPC Ltd. and TotalEnergies jointly announced the accomplishment yesterday during an inspection tour to OML 100, which is situated in the southeast Niger Delta, off the coast of Port Harcourt. The purpose of the mission was to evaluate the operational mining lease (OML) Flare Reduction Project’s development.
OML 100 is the sole lease with routine flaring that is still in progress. The NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies JV, the concession holder of four leases, had achieved zero routine flaring throughout OML 99 (2006), OML 102 (2014), and OML 58 (2016).
The accomplishment is significant because it eliminates the last routine flare volume of roughly 12 million standard cubic feet per day (12MMscf/d) of gas, resulting in a reduction of about 341KtCO2e/yr in greenhouse gas emissions, according to Olufemi Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer at NNPCL.
According to him, the accomplishment was the result of a campaign that NNPC Ltd. launched to spur action in the direction of reaching the zero routine flare across its asset portfolio by 2030.
“It is also a testament to NNPCL’s prioritization of sustainability, which is based on the ‘first R’ of its 5R strategy (reduce, replace, renew, re-plant, and repurpose) as it works to reduce its carbon footprint. To guarantee that all assets achieve zero routine flaring by 2030 or earlier, work is ongoing across all other assets within NNPCL’s Upstream Directorate,” he stated.
