Victor EzejaThe Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has said that in line with the quest to meet global target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, its joint venture with TotalEnergies has achieved zero routine gas flare in all its assets.
This was made known in a statement released on Thursday, 15 February 2024 by the NNPCL spiky, Femi Soneye.
Soneye said the feat was announced on Thursday during an inspection tour of OML 100 in South-eastern Niger Delta, off Port Harcourt, by a joint team of NNPC Ltd. and TotalEnergies to ascertain the success of the OML Flare Reduction Project launched in December 2023.
The statement reads: “In pursuit of meeting the targets of 20% (unconditional) and 47% (conditional) greenhouse gas emission reduction as contained in the Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Accord signed by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, the NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture has achieved zero routine gas flare in all its assets.
“This feat was announced on Thursday during an inspection tour of OML 100 in South-eastern Niger Delta, off Port Harcourt, by a joint team of NNPC Ltd. and TotalEnergies to ascertain the success of the OML Flare Reduction Project launched in December 2023.
“The NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture, 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 about 12MMscf/d (twelve million standard cubic feet per day) of gas has now been eliminated giving rise to a greenhouse gas emissions reduction of about 341KtCO₂e/yr.”
It said the achievement was an outcome of a programme set up by the NNPCL to galvanize action towards achieving the zero routine flare by 2030 across its portfolio of assets.
“It is also a testament to NNPC Ltd’s prioritization of sustainability anchored on the ‘first R’ of its 5R Strategy (Reduce, Replace, Renew, Re-plant, Repurpose), as it strives to reduce its carbon footprint.”
It added that work is ongoing across all other assets within NNPCL’s Upstream Directorate to ensure that all assets achieve zero routine flaring by 2030 or earlier.
Victor Ezeja is a passionate journalist with six years of experience writing on economy, politics and energy. He holds a Masters degree in Mass Communication.
