Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Co. Ltd. (NNPC Ltd.) is designing a methane abatement mission in collaboration with the US Division of State and Deloitte, the nationwide oil and gasoline firm has mentioned.
The three companions held a three-day technical workshop on methane discount and decarbonization in Abuja. “The workshop, which is a follow-up on the July 2023 capability constructing Coaching on Methane Baselining and Organizational Design and the Growth of a Methane Expertise Analysis Framework, is geared toward defining the crucial success components for the Methane Abatement Pilot Undertaking Implementation, Scaling and Financing”, NNPC mentioned in a current information launch. “Among the crucial components of the mission tabled on the workshop embrace figuring out the scope of the mission, establishing a baseline for methane and carbon emissions from the chosen operation websites, accumulating related information on the chosen websites and serving to the Deloitte consultants to know the operations and expectations of NNPC Ltd”.
Oil Mining Lease (OML) 34, operated by NNPC with a 55 p.c stake, has been chosen because the check web site for the methane management mission. The 950-square-kilometer (366.8 miles) block onshore Niger Delta has three producing fields—Ughelli East, Ughelli West and Utorogu, in accordance with 45 p.c leaseholder ND Western Ltd. The fields have a mixed manufacturing of about 390 million cubic toes of gasoline a day and 17,000 barrels of oil and condensate per day, ND Western says on its web site. A fourth area, the beforehand producing Warri River, is predicted to return to manufacturing, ND Western says.
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International Methane Pledge
The workshop drew contributors “from related NNPC Ltd.’s subsidiaries and Departments akin to Exploration & Manufacturing; New Power; Gasoline Infrastructure; Well being, Security, and Surroundings, in addition to the Ministry of Petroleum Sources, and Federal Authorities companies just like the Nationwide Council on Local weather Change”, the press launch acknowledged.
The US Bureau of Power Sources, an workplace below the State Division, is sponsoring technical coaching below the methane abatement mission by the bureau’s Power and Mineral Governance Program, NNPC mentioned.
Washington and Abuja are signatories to the International Methane Pledge, an initiative launched at COP26 in 2021 that has set a worldwide aim of reducing methane emissions by a minimum of 30 p.c by 2030 relative to 2020 ranges.
Methane from power provide, primarily fugitive emissions from the manufacturing and the transport of fossil fuels, accounted for round 18 p.c, or as a lot as 23 p.c, of world greenhouse gasoline emissions from power provide in 2019, in accordance with the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change’s newest evaluation report on international local weather progress. Power supplyattributable methane accounted for about 32 p.c, or as excessive as 42 p.c, of total methane emissions and 6 p.c of Earth-warming gasoline emissions in 2019, in accordance with the report by the United Nations physique printed 2022.
“Quickly lowering methane emissions is complementary to motion on carbon dioxide and different greenhouse gases, and is considered the one best technique to cut back international warming within the close to time period and hold the aim of limiting warming to 1.5 levels Celsius inside attain”, acknowledged a US-European Union assertion asserting the International Methane Pledge.
“Nations have extensively various methane emissions profiles and discount potential, however all can contribute to attaining the collective international aim by further home methane discount and worldwide cooperative actions”, mentioned the assertion September 18, 2021. “Main sources of methane emissions embrace oil and gasoline, coal, agriculture, and landfills. These sectors have totally different beginning factors and ranging potential for short-term methane abatement with the best potential for focused mitigation by 2030 within the power sector”.
Moreover the 30 p.c decadal discount goal, international locations which have acceded to the pledge agree to make use of “finest out there stock methodologies to quantify methane emissions”, in accordance with the assertion.
Nigeria-TotalEnergies Collaboration
Earlier than the cooperation with the US and Deloitte, NNPC inked an settlement with TotalEnergies SE on methane detection and monitoring concentrating on oil and gasoline services in Nigeria.
Underneath the deal introduced by TotalEnergies December 18, the French power large will share its drone-based innovation AUSEA with NNPC. Launched 2017, AUSEA consists of a twin sensor able to detecting methane and carbon dioxide emissions and figuring out their supply, in accordance with TotalEnergies.
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