03/08/2021 par Richard
Les participants à la conférence virtuelle IHS Markit ont appris que les compagnies pétrolières Petronas and Total are seeking to continue upstream oil production, but with lower émissions de gaz à effet de serre.
Adif Zulkifli of Petronas, the government-owned Malaysian oil company, voiced his company’s ambition to become a low-cost, low-carbon business for oil exploration and production. He said the company was currently examining how it could reduce the emissions of operations, highlighting a need to eliminate flaring by 2030 and venting by 2024.
Arnaud Breuillac, the Exploration and Production President of French energy company and lubricant maker Total, also said upstream production would remain a large part of its business as it seeks to produce more energy with fewer emissions. Indeed, it said it would increase its energy production by a million barrels of oil equivalent per day over this decade, with half coming from renewable energy generation and half from natural gas production.
Total is also looking to reduce the carbon intensity of future developments as well. For example, Breuillac talked about the company’s onshore Tilenga field in Ouganda:
"Nous avons réduit les émissions associées à cette production. Les émissions moyennes à Tilenga, au plateau de production, seront d'environ 13 kilogrammes de CO2 par baril de pétrole, ce qui est bien inférieur à notre intensité moyenne, qui est d'environ 20".
On estime que le champ de Tilenga contient environ un milliard de barils de réserves de pétrole récupérables. Elle devrait produire environ 230 000 barils de pétrole par jour lors de sa mise en service en 2024.
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