Total and energy technology company, Siemens Energy, have signed a Technical Collaboration Agreement to study sustainable solutions for carbon dioxide emissions reduction. The collaboration will focus on natural gas liquefaction facilities and associated power generation.
Each partner will bring together their best-in-class technologies and combine their know-how to deliver industrial-stage solutions such as combustion of clean hydrogen in gas turbines, competitive all-electrical liquefaction, optimised power generation, the integration of renewable energy in liquefaction plants’ power system and their efficiency enhancement.
President of Exploration and Production at Total, Arnaud Breuillac, said that this collaboration with Siemens Energy, a major player in the energy technology sector, brings many opportunities to further reduce the carbon footprint of Total’s activities, especially in its strategic LNG business.
“The development of low-carbon LNG will contribute to meet the growth in global energy demand whilst reducing the carbon intensity of the energy products consumed. Reducing its carbon footprint is essential for LNG to play its role fully in the energy transition.”
Executive Vice President of the Industrial Applications Division at Siemens Energy, Thorbjörn Fors, said that they are pleased to partner with Total as one of the main players in the LNG value chain to explore how to competitively reduce the carbon footprint of brownfield and greenfield LNG projects.
“The agreement is a next step, following our announcement last June to collaborate together and conduct studies exploring possible liquefaction and power generation plant designs to help decarbonise the production of LNG,” Fors said.
Total is the world’s second-largest privately-owned LNG player, with a global portfolio of nearly 50 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) by 2025 and a global market share of around 10 per cent.
