The French energy company TotalEnergies signed three cooperation agreements with national oil and gas companies to help them eliminate their methane emissions by 2030.
The companies inked the agreements on Tuesday at the Eliminating Methane Emissions by 2030 roundtable, which was organized by the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) Presidency.
The company partnered with Petrobras in Brazil, SOCAR in Azerbaijan, and Sonangol in Angola to conduct methane detection and measurement campaigns using its cutting-edge technology, the Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications (AUSEA), on oil and gas facilities in these three countries.
To identify and measure greenhouse gas emissions, TotalEnergies and its R&D partners have been developing the ground-breaking AUSEA technology since 2017.
The AUSEA gas analyzer is currently one of the most accurate technologies in the world to detect and measure methane emissions.
‘For the oil and gas industry, cutting methane emissions from operations is a priority as technologies are available,’ Patrick Pouyanne, chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, was quoted as saying in the statement.
‘The first step is to measure emissions, asset by asset. By making our AUSEA technology available to our partners, TotalEnergies is taking a concrete step to encourage the whole industry, including national companies, to aim for zero methane emissions,’ Pouyanne said.
After cutting its methane emissions from its sites of operation in half between 2010 and 2020, TotalEnergies set ambitious goals to increase its efforts and cut methane emissions by 50% by 2025 and by 80% by 2030, relative to 2020.
