Climate Change: NNPCL, US, Deloitte Partner On Greenhouse Emission Reduction From OML 34

In Abuja on Monday, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) unveiled a strategic alliance with the United States Department of States and the global management consultancy firm, Deloitte. This collaborative effort is aimed at achieving net-zero carbon objectives through the initiation of a project focused on reducing methane and other greenhouse gas emissions originating from the company’s upstream operations.

According to Olufemi Soneye, the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, in an official statement, the project, currently in its early conceptual stage, took center stage during a three-day Technical Assistance on Oil & Gas Sector Global Methane Abatement and Decarbonisation Workshop. This workshop, commencing on Monday at the PTDF Tower in Abuja, is a follow-up to a previous session held in July 2023.

Soneye underscored the workshop’s primary objectives, emphasizing its pivotal role in delineating the critical success elements of the project, among other significant aims.

The statement goes  thus

: “Some of the critical elements of the project tabled at the workshop include: determining the scope of the project, establishing a baseline for methane and carbon emissions from the selected operation sites, collecting relevant data on the selected sites and helping the Deloitte consultants to understand the operations and expectations of NNPC Ltd.

“Participants at the workshop unanimously selected OML 34 located onshore in the Western Niger Delta which has the Utorogu and Ughelli Fields as the operation site for the pilot stage of the project.

“Participants were drawn from relevant NNPC Ltd.’s subsidiaries and Departments such as Exploration & Production; New Energy; Gas Infrastructure; Health, Safety, and Environment, as well as Federal Government agencies like the National Council on Climate Change.

“The project is sponsored by the United States Department of State Bureau of Energy Resources, Energy and Mineral Governance Programme (EMGP).”