BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.8
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR has reduced associated gas emissions to 2 percent and targets zero in 2022, Trend reports citing the company.
SOCAR will become of one the first oil and gas companies to reach zero carbon emission.
The company takes proactive steps to prevent methane gas emission into the atmosphere and to fight climate change which causes threat to environmental sustainability in the Caspian Sea region and around the world.
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR is among the companies meeting international standards for environmental security in industry.
The main directions of the company’s environmental activity are envisaged in the Environmental Policy.
SOCAR continuously conducts monitoring on its production sites offshore and onshore in order to control the environmental security in its departments and facilities.
The company has been actively using wind and solar energy facilities in order to minimize the fuel consumption and increase the energy efficiency. Most of the control and measuring devices installed on the pipelines run on solar energy. In addition, wind turbines and solar panels are used in a number of enterprises to illuminate office buildings.
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