The company conducted a number of projects to improve overall energy efficiency in its producing fields. Among them, the Ekofisk II redevelopment project in the North Sea utilized high-efficiency turbines to reduce power usage and recover waste heat produced during power generation.

The C-GAS project, undertaken by ConocoPhillips China, replaced diesel fuel with excess associated gas to fuel the turbine generator during the early operational years. This project achieved greater efficiency, reduced flare volumes and reduced diesel fuel consumption.  

In Indonesia, our Suban natural gas processing plant optimized power generation by implementing a load-sharing and fuel-usage monitoring system.

In recent years, the Canada business unit completed more than 160 projects, saving approximately 7.9 million cubic meters of natural gas. This also precluded approximately 31,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions, equivalent to taking 5,900 cars off the road. Projects included installing solar-powered chemical injection units, upgrading burners, optimizing our operations to allow some facilities and equipment to be shut down, capturing vented gas, and identifying and eliminating fugitive emissions at our facilities. After that, the energy efficiency team completed another eight large and 80 small projects to evaluate and test technologies to reduce our emissions footprint.

The U.S. Lower 48 business unit improved energy efficiency through greater utilization of photovoltaic solar panels on field equipment. For example, we are using solar-powered chemical injection units in place of gas-powered pumps on many wells, thus reducing emissions and fuel use.