Integrating Climate into our Strategy - 31
Promoting Responsible
Energy Use
In addition to making a key contribution to achieving the 2°C scenario,
energy efficiency drives operational performance.
We continuously improve the energy efficiency of our facilities
and develop products and services to help manufacturers and consumers
optimize their energy use.
Improving Our Own
Energy Efficiency
OFFSHORE
For certain offshore projects, such as
Martin Linge in the Norwegian North Sea,
the facilities are all-electric. The power
is generated onshore, then transported
to the platform via a subsea cable.
Unlike the gas turbines usually used,
this innovation means that consumption
matches the facility’s actual requirements.
REFINERIES
Since 2012, 30 energy efficiency projects
have been rolled out at our various refineries.
The €60 million invested has helped us
to save roughly 60,000 tons of oil equivalent
a year.
The redesign of the distillation unit
in Normandy in 2012, for example,
improved its energy efficiency 22%.
By making smart choices about equipment and innovative technologies right
from the project design phase, we have cut our energy use 10% since 2005.
By end-2016, we will have deployed energy management systems
at all our main sites. These include:
- Energy audits to assess the amount of primary energy consumed by
each site and identify where energy efficiency gains can be made.
- Energy improvement programs to reduce fuel and steam consumption
by optimizing refinery operations. These programs also assess
the potential installation of new equipment that maximizes heat transfer.
-Upgrading facilities by replacing older equipment with more efficient or
less energy-intensive equipment.
- Preparing long-term investment plans for the sites.
We are also pursuing ISO 50001 energy management certification.
In 2015, our Leuna refinery obtained certification, as did several Marketing
& Services sites: the Brunsbüttel bitumen plant in Germany and the Solaize
research center, the Saint-Martin-d’Hères site and seven depots and
193 service stations in France. In the Exploration & Production segment,
Total ABK in Abu Dhabi was certified in early 2016.
At our exploration and production sites, we are stepping up our efforts
by reducing the routine flaring of gas from our production activities.
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