During India Energy Week 2024 (February 6-9 in Goa), ONGC signed a cooperation agreement with TotalEnergies for methane emissions detection and measurement campaigns. TotalEnergies’ AUSEA (Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications) technology will be used.
Country Chair of TotalEnergies in India, Dr. Sangkaran Ratnam, and ONGC Director (Exploration) Sushma Rawat signed the agreement on 6 February 2024.
ONGC and TotalEnergies are party to the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC), a global industry initiative launched at COP28, dedicated to speeding up climate action and achieving high-scale impact across the oil and gas sectors.Â
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ONGC has invited international technology partners to help reduce its methane emissions in India by 2030.
ONGC joins a growing list of companies that have signed agreements to use AUSEA. The other companies include:
- Petrobras in Brazil
- SOCAR in Azerbaijan
- Sonangol in Angola
- NNPCL in Nigeria
“Our industry’s priority in the fight against climate change is to slash methane emissions from operations. Aiming for zero methane emissions by 2030 is our collective ambition as signatories of the OGDC at COP28. We are pleased to collaborate and make our AUSEA technology available to ONGC in India to detect, measure, and eventually reduce methane emissions on their own assets”, said the Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, Patrick Pouyanné, in a release.
Commenting on the pact, ONGC Chairman and CEO Arun Kumar Singh said, “In line with our collective ambitions as signatories of the OGDC at COP28, ONGC is scouting for new technologies to reduce its methane emissions by 50 % by 2027 and by 80% in 2030 compared to 2020. The introduction of the AUSEA technology will further strengthen our efforts to achieve zero methane emissions by 2038.”