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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and TotalEnergies joint venture (JV) has achieved zero routine gas flare in all its assets.

According to a statement on Thursday by Femi Soneye, spokesperson of the national oil company, the feat was announced on Thursday during an inspection tour of oil mining lease (OML) 100 in south-eastern Niger Delta, off Port Harcourt, by a joint team of NNPC Ltd and TotalEnergies.

The tour was to ascertain the success of the OML flare reduction project launched in December 2023.

NNPC said this is “in pursuit of meeting the targets of 20% (unconditional) and 47% (conditional) greenhouse gas emission reduction as contained in the nationally determined contribution under the Paris Accord signed by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration”.

“The NNPC Ltd/TotalEnergies Joint Venture, which is the concession holder of four leases, had hitherto achieved zero routine flaring across OML 99 (2006), OML 102 (2014), and OML 58 (2016), leaving OML 100 as the only lease with routine flaring going on,” NNPC said. 

“The significance of this achievement is that the last routine flare volume of about 12MMscf/d (twelve million standard cubic feet per day) of gas has now been eliminated giving rise to a greenhouse gas emissions reduction of about 341KtCO₂e/yr.”

According to the statement, the accomplishment is the result of a programme the NNPC launched to spur action towards reaching the zero routine flare across its asset portfolio by 2030.

“It is also a testament 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 reduce its carbon footprint,” NNPC said.

Work is ongoing, according to NNPC, across all other assets within the national oil company’s upstream directorate, to guarantee all assets achieve zero routine flaring by 2030 or earlier.