- Other ongoing key flare-out projects on track to end routine gas flaring by 2025 include the Western Asset Flares Out, Sapele LPG Storage & Offloading Facility, Oben LPG and Ohaji Flares Out Project.
- Seplat’s new gas plant developments now come with LPG installations, which promote clean energy and discourage using biomass for cooking.
Seplat Energy plc has declared its commitment to ending routine gas flaring by 2025. This is part of the company’s plans to drive and ensure a sustainable business, creating increased value for people and the environment.
In a statement released on Sunday, August 11, 2024, Seplat reiterated its resolve to address the dual challenges of ensuring energy security and meeting climate change mitigation targets. In a bid to end gas flaring as targeted, Seplat Energy has continued to progress in securing evacuation options for unprocessed associated gas from the Sapele Flow Station.
The Director of New Energy at Seplat, Mr Okechukwu Mba, stated this during a panel session at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Nigerian Council’s 47th Nigeria Annual International Conference & Exhibition (NAICE) in Lagos.
The event themed, “Energy Security: Exploring the Interplay Between Technology, Market Dynamics and Organisational Capabilities”, focused on collecting and encouraging the dissemination of technical knowledge and technologies related to the oil and gas industry and providing an E & P marketplace for Sub-Sahara Africa.
During the session, Mba, who represented the CEO of Seplat, Mr Roger Brown, said every molecule of gas Seplat Energy produces targets displacing utilisable diesel. In addition, he stressed that the company’s new gas plant developments now come with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) installations, which promote clean energy and discourage the use of biomass for cooking.
“We are committed to ending routine gas flaring by 2025, and all projects aimed at making this a reality are on track. Alongside this, work has continued on the construction of the Sapele Integrated Gas Plant (SIGP), scheduled to be completed during H2, 2024. Once operational, SIGP offtake has the potential to materially reduce Group Scope 1 emissions.
“Other ongoing key flare-out projects, including the Western Asset Flares Out (installation of VRU compressors), Sapele LPG Storage & Offloading Facility, Oben LPG Project and Ohaji Flares Out Project, are on track for completion by their respective due dates,” Seplat added.
The Seplat New Energy Director also referenced the company’s Tree4Life initiative, which recently saw the NEPL/Seplat Energy joint venture and the Edo State Government sign an agreement that allocates 6,000 hectares of land from Edo State protected forest reserves to enable a large-scale tree planting initiative by Seplat Energy Plc.