BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.9
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
Natural gas emissions by Italian Snam company amounted to 35.0 million cubic meters, down 11 percent compared to 39.2 million m3 in 2019 and 21 percent compared to 2018, Trend reports citing the company.
It was achieved thanks to gas recompression interventions in the line, interventions with tapping machines (technology that allows detaching from operating pipelines for new connections without interrupting service), the use of Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) technologies and other initiatives to replace network components.
“All these activities have reduced both total emissions of natural gas and specific methane emissions, avoiding the emission of more than 10 million m3 of natural gas into the atmosphere, equivalent to 183,000 tonnes of CO2eq avoided (+11 percent compared to 2019). The overall natural gas reduction in 2020 was -30 percent compared to 2015. The results were achieved thanks to the numerous activities to monitor and reduce methane emissions. In particular, the LDAR (Leak Detection & Repair) programme, one of the projects to which the Group has committed the most resources, has enabled fugitive emissions to be identified and contained,” reads the report released by Snam.
In 2020, Snam has further increased the target for recovery of natural gas emissions during maintenance activities, to 40 percent, the latter value intended as the average of the last 5 years. As a result of the emission containment activities implemented in the year despite the pandemic, the 2020 figure was 49 percent, 9 percentage points above the 2021-2023 target and up from the 2019 figure (44 percent).
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