Chapter 3:
Collaborate & Share
The Collaborate & Share program is a cornerstone of the OGDC’s efforts to accelerate climate action by disseminating solutions, promoting peer-to-peer collaboration and encouraging the adoption of best practices. It offers signatories a repository of international industry knowledge and resources across a broad range of areas, from measurement and reporting to methane mitigation and the development of corporate decarbonization strategies for Scope 1 & 2 emissions.
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The successful implementation of Eni’s net-zero strategy cannot be achieved without collaboration with stakeholders – from business partners and private individuals to the public sector, international organizations, civil society associations and research institutes.
We are bringing our experience and commitment to the OGDC, by sharing our decarbonization skills and solutions within the energy sector and beyond, to help deliver meaningful emissions reductions. In particular, Eni has established strategic collaborations with international partners, such as Sonatrach in Algeria, EGAS in Egypt, ADNOC in the United Arab Emirates and SOCAR in Azerbaijan to identify opportunities for reducing GHG emissions.”
Francesca Ciardiello
Head of Sustainability at Eni
In developing the program, the OGDC drew upon the decade of experience available within the OGCI and teamed up with internationally recognized consultants and global environmental and development bodies such as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank to develop and deliver tailor-made company-specific training.
OGDC also worked closely with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP), Ipieca, Methane Guiding Principles (MGP), and OGCI to develop emissions reduction toolkits.
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NNPC Limited is working to ensure a low carbon footprint across all our businesses, from oil and gas through to new energy. We are excited about the OGDC’s Collaborate & Share program, which offers signatories an unparalleled opportunity to benefit from the experiences and practical insights of our peers.
We are rolling the first one-to-one training on decarbonization strategies and marginal abatement cost curves with OGDC and an international management consultancy, and we look forward to applying these learnings to our strategy.”
Chinedu Igwe
Head of Sustainability at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC)
To date, the program has developed and/or provided:
- More than 20 training modules covering decarbonization of operations strategies, GHG emissions reporting and methane and flaring reduction, of which nine leveraged UNEP’s OGMP2.0 training program;
- Tailor-made training delivered to seven signatories, including 21 modules, with over 80 hours of training provided to 200+ executive leaders, staff, and management.
- Six webinars from ExxonMobil, IOGP, Ipieca, Oxy, Shell and TotalEnergies covering Scope 1 & 2 decarbonization strategies and how to develop marginal abatement cost curves, methane emissions data management systems, GHG emissions reporting and methane emissions monitoring technologies;
- Four executive roundtables in North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, which gathered more than 75 executives to assess regional challenges to decarbonization of operations and explore joint regional climate action;
- An internal directory of more than 75 technical assistance and support options available at no cost to signatories from some 20 industry associations, non-governmental organizations, philanthropic organizations, financial institutions and not-for-profits;
- Supported the development of a library of resources on reducing methane emissions, developed by OGCI, and expected to launch in Q1 2025. The library will include some 150 best-in-class resources covering subjects as diverse as detection and quantification technologies, methane fundamentals, regulations and standards, methane abatement strategies and operational guidance;
- Three frameworks7 of essential resources for methane and flaring mitigation, developed in collaboration with EDF, IOGP, Ipieca, MGP and OGCI.
7 www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/ogdc-methane-and-flaring-framework/
Case Study: India’s ONGC Ltd. and TotalEnergies partner to eliminate methane emissions
In the spirit of the OGDC’s focus on sharing best practices, TotalEnergies has taken an active role in making its pioneering AUSEA technology available to national oil companies, enabling them to carry out methane detection and measurement drone campaigns on their own assets.
To support the efforts of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC) to achieve zero methane emissions by 2030, TotalEnergies and ONGC signed a cooperation agreement in 2024 for drone campaigns on three ONGC-operated sites in 2025.
The drone-mounted AUSEA gas analyzer, developed by TotalEnergies and its research and development partners, consists of a dual sensor capable of detecting methane and carbon dioxide emissions and identifying their source. This technology marks a step change from traditional techniques and is regarded as one of the most accurate technologies in the industry.
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We strongly believe that sharing technology is instrumental to pivoting the whole industry towards near-zero methane emissions by 2030. To reach this collective ambition, the first step is to measure emissions, asset by asset.
We are pleased to collaborate with ONGC, as well as with a growing list of national companies, on the use of AUSEA. I am also convinced that the workshop we have organized within the OGDC will encourage the implementation of this best practice.”
Namita Shah
President, OneTech at TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies (2024)