Integrating Climate into our Strategy - 41
Glossary
Unit of measurement
Acronyms
b barrel
B or G
billion
boe
barrel of oil equivalent
CO2-eq
CO2 equivalent
eq
equivalent
Gt
billion tons
GW
gigawatt
k thousand
M million
Mboe/d million barrels of oil equivalent
per day
Mcu. m
million cubic meters
t
metric ton
TWh
terawatt-hour
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
HSE
Health, Safety & Environment
IEA International Energy Agency
IOGP International Association
of Oil & Gas Producers
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
IPIECA The global oil and gas industry
association for environmental
and social issues
OECD
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development
OGCI Oil & Gas Climate Initiative
R&D Research and Development
USD Official abbreviation of the
United States dollar
Definitions
Greenhouse Gas (GHG)
The six gases named in the Kyoto Protocol: carbon
dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O),
hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), with their respective
Global Warming Potential (GWP), as described in
the 2007 IPCC report.
Operated Scope
The activities, sites and assets operated by Total S.A.
or a company it controls, i.e. those that Total
or a Total-controlled company operates or is
contractually responsible for managing operations:
803 sites at December 31, 2015.
Operational/Non-Continuous Production Flaring
All flaring other than continuous or safety flaring.
It is usually sporadic and carried out at high intensity
for a short duration. It may occur on a planned or
unplanned basis. It includes flaring carried out during
temporary (or partial) failures of equipment used to
process gas during normal operations and lasts until
the equipment has been repaired or replaced.
Routine Flaring
Flaring during normal oil production operations in the
absence of sufficient facilities or amenable geology to
reinject the produced gas, utilize it onsite, or dispatch it
to a market. Routine flaring does not include safety flaring,
even when the latter is continuous.
Safety Flaring
Flaring carried out to ensure safe operations on facilities.
Start-up Flaring
Commissioning new oil or gas production facilities
generally takes several weeks. Flaring during this
phase can take the form of each of the types of flaring
mentioned above, until normal production starts.
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