Baker Hughes and Petrosafe, a subsidiary of the Egyptian Normal Petroleum Company (EGPC), have agreed to deploy Baker Hughes’ flare.IQ expertise on the APC Refinery in Alexandria, Egypt, because the preliminary part of a broader flare restoration partnership to assist cut back emissions from oil and gasoline flaring operations
The contract signing. (Picture supply: Baker Hughes)
Incomplete combustion of flared gasoline is among the main supply of methane emissions throughout the oil and gasoline business. By utilizing flare.IQ expertise from Panametrics, a Baker Hughes enterprise, EGPC will additional digitalise its emissions administration infrastructure and pull vital details about its flare programs, considerably decreasing emissions by making certain a higher-efficiency flare combustion price.
The contract comes as Egypt prepares to host the twenty seventh UN Local weather Change Convention (COP 27) in November and contributes to the International Methane Pledge.
“Our flare restoration partnership with Baker Hughes is a vital step in Egypt’s Petroleum Sector Modernization program as we begin implementing MoPMR initiatives included inside Egypt’s Local weather Change Technique 2050, as introduced in Could 2022,” stated H.E. Tarek El-Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Assets. “Part one of many partnership, the deployment of flare.IQ, will help our flare restoration ambitions, which is one in all our Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs), in help of the Paris Settlement targets. We stay up for seeing the influence of flare.IQ assist enhance the standard of life for residents close to the Alexandria plant and anticipate extending the scope to incorporate different refineries throughout Egypt.”
“Higher understanding and managing emissions is central to the oil and gasoline business’s efforts to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions. Our partnership with MoPMR demonstrates how Baker Hughes continues to collaborate with our clients in taking constructive motion in emissions administration,” stated Rami Qasem, government vp of digital options at Baker Hughes. “This partnership with MoPMR helps its formidable low-carbon technique, and additional underlines Egypt’s dedication to be on the forefront of tackling emissions within the oil and gasoline sector, as we strategy COP 27.”
The contract follows the memorandum of understanding that was signed by the 2 firms in February 2022 to ascertain a flare restoration initiative to help emissions restoration and discount throughout Egypt’s upstream and downstream oil and gasoline operations.
