Integrating Climate into our Strategy - 15
Taking Positions
in Competitive Resources
The reserves that have already
been discovered, and even more
so those yet to be found, will not
necessarily be fully developed.
Whether or not they can be will
depend on a number of factors:
demand, production conditions
(profitability, political context
and environmental issues),
as well as carbon pricing.
The IEA puts oil demand over
the period 2014-2035 at 690 billion
barrels. Although discovered reserves
currently stand at approximately
1.7 trillion barrels, the agency believes
that about one-third of demand over
the next two decades will be met by
fields yet-to-be developed or yet-tobe found.
Mb/d
The 2°C scenario means that oil
companies need to allocate their
investments to assets that will be
competitive — in other words,
with reasonable costs.
Breakdown of Global Oil Production
Under the 2°C scenario
Other unconventional oil
Light tight oil
NGLs
Enhanced oil recovery
Crude oil
Fields yet-to-be found
Fields yet-to-be developed
Currently producing
Source: IEA – World Energy Investment Outlook 2014.
In the next two decades, around one-third of demand will be met by yet-to-be developed
or yet-to-be found fields.
Carbon Capture, Use and Storage
The 2°C scenario also includes a significant ramp-up
in the coming decades of carbon capture, use and storage
(CCUS) technologies, which will be needed to achieve
carbon neutrality in the second half of the century.
Total has long been committed to developing CCUS
technology, in particular through the Lacq pilot project
carried out between 2010 and 2013 involving oxy-fuel
combustion capture followed by storage in a depleted
reservoir. We systematically examine the possibility
of reinjecting CO2 from the fields we produce and are
looking at ways to use it to enhance oil recovery.
Based on our experience, we feel that further R&D is
required in a variety of areas, including the maturity of
capture technologies, availability and location of storage
capacity, carbon use, technical feasibility matching the
scale of needs, and reducing the cost
of these technologies. To that end,
we will allocate up to 10% of our
R&D spending to CCUS. We have
also begun working alongside our
peers within the Oil & Gas Climate
Initiative on commerciality issues,
capture technologies and global
storage capacity.
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