As part of its efforts to achieve a 20 percent (unconditional) and 47 percent (conditional) reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, as outlined in the Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Accord signed during the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture has announced the accomplishment of zero routine gas flaring across all its assets.
The NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture, which holds concessions for four leases, had previously achieved zero routine flaring across OML 99 (2006), OML 102 (2014), and OML 58 (2016), leaving OML 100 as the only lease with ongoing routine flaring.
Mr. Olufemi Soneye, the NNPCL Spokesperson, stated in a press release that this achievement was disclosed on Thursday during an inspection tour of OML 100 in the southeastern Niger Delta, off Port Harcourt, by a joint team from NNPC Ltd and TotalEnergies.
He explained that the inspection tour aimed to verify the success of the OML Flare Reduction Project launched in December 2023.
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“The significance of this achievement is that the last routine flare volume of about 12 MMscf/d (twelve million standard cubic feet per day) of gas has now been eliminated, resulting in a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by about 341 KtCO₂e/yr.
“This accomplishment is an outcome of a program introduced by NNPC Ltd to catalyze action towards achieving zero routine flaring by 2030 across its portfolio of assets.
“It also attests 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 decrease its carbon footprint.
“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,” the statement said.
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