Dolphin Energy achieves 25% drop in flaring volumes

  • Date: 01-Aug-2022
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:UAE
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Dolphin Energy achieves 25% drop in flaring volumes

UAE - Dolphin Energy Limited (DEL), one of the largest trans-border energy projects ever undertaken in the Middle East, has achieved a 3% decrease in total Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), a 25% drop in flaring volumes.

Besides, the company clocked a 15% decrease in NOx emissions and a 32% decrease in SO2 emissions, DEL’s 13th sustainability report, covering the company’s operations and activities for 2021, said.

Furthermore, the company recorded a 21% decrease in water consumption while 28% of all waste was recycled. In 2021, Dolphin Energy spent $8.8 million on environmental projects while $2.2 million was spent on community investments.

Exceptional safety

Commenting on the report, Dolphin Energy’s CEO, Obaid Abdulla Al Dhaheri, said: “Despite the challenge of Covid-19, we sustained our exceptional safety and operational performance, achieving our production target and maintaining an excellent relationship with our customers. We continued our pursuit of process improvement, as well as the implementation of our digitisation efforts.

“Our performance also reflects our diligent approach to managing our operations safely and efficiently in a way that has helped us reduce our environmental footprint.”

The company surpassed 10 trillion cubic feet of gas produced and 485 million barrels of condensate production since first gas in 2007. In addition, the