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| Photo shows NNPC Ltd’s Executive Vice President, Upstream, Udy Ntia (2nd from right); TotalEnergies Country Chair and Managing Director, Matthieu Bouyer (1st from left), signing an MoU at the NNPC Towers in Abuja, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 |
NNPC Limited has renewed its partnership with TotalEnergies, extending use of the Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications (AUSEA) for another 24 months.
The airborne sensor system will continue to detect and quantify methane and carbon emissions across NNPC’s upstream operations, improving the company’s ability to find leaks and prioritize reductions.
The renewed agreement supports NNPC’s commitments under the Oil & Gas Decarbonization Charter (OGDC), its participation in the Oil & Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP) 2.0, and its goal of achieving near-zero methane emissions by 2030.
This extension builds on an initial 2023 deal to adopt AUSEA technology and accelerates efforts to meet the company’s gas-flaring reduction obligations.
A press release signed by Andy Odeh, Chief Corporate Communications Officer NNPC Ltd, says the agreement was signed by NNPC Ltd’s Executive Vice President, Upstream, Udy Ntia and TotalEnergies Country Chair and Managing Director, Matthieu Bouyer, on behalf of their respective companies, at the NNPC Towers, in Abuja, on Wednesday.
Speaking at the occasion, Ntia expressed satisfaction with the first phase of the deployment of the technology, stressing that he would like to see it scaled across more assets.
“Today’s signing represents a practical step in NNPC Limited’s journey to build a credible, transparent and action-oriented decarbonization programme. Through the AUSEA initiative, we are strengthening our ability to detect, quantify and prioritise methane abatement opportunities using advanced measurement technology,” Ntia added.
He also called for the institutionalization of progress reporting, in line with compliance requirements and the possibility of leveraging transfer of the AUSEA technology.
On his part, TotalEnergies’ Senior Vice President, Africa, Mr. Mike Sangster, expressed satisfaction with the cooperation his company has enjoyed from NNPC over the years, stressing that TotalEnergies was the first oil producing company in Nigeria to end gas flaring in all its assets and that the AUSEA technology was instrumental to that feat, even as the company looks forward to near-zero methane emissions by 2030.
AUSEA, according to the press release, is a drone-based technology developed by TotalEnergies in partnership with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Reims.
It helps in the identification of unaccounted emission sources, establishment of basis for querying and improving current emission reporting processes, provision of data to review operational system and implement corrective actions, as well as estimation of flare combustion efficiency.
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