2.5.1CO₂ Challenge season 2 ’Take care of your flare’

The CO₂ Challenge is an in-house competition designed to address the issue of climate change with a bottom-up approach, while leveraging expertise to create a competitive edge. Starting in 2015, SBM Offshore tested the creative talents of its engineers by asking them to propose innovative solutions to reduce CO₂ emissions offshore, ’Season 1’.

In 2017 ’Season 2’, ’Take care of your flare’ was launched with an exclusive focus on reducing flaring on the offshore units. The Company challenged its crews to set flare reduction targets and compete against each other for best performance.

Three winners were awarded: one for best performance against the target, one for best performance in total tonnes of CO₂ reduction and one for best performance against hydrocarbons produced.

CO₂ Challenge ’Season 2’ Findings

Flaring levels are directly linked to uptime performance of the gas processing facilities on the units. Better operational control on all systems reduces flaring and improves uptime. Flaring is only partially under SBM Offshore’s operational control and in order to continue reduction in overall flaring, cooperation with the Company’s clients is essential to optimize.

CO₂ Challenge ’Season 3’

Going forward, starting in 2018 ’Season 3’ will focus on reducing energy consumption and reducing oil in water, as well as the continuation of the flaring reduction targets.

CO₂ Reduction Onshore

Following the success of the CO₂ Challenge, an onshore version was created, the CO₂ Office Challenge. All offices contributed positive results and continue to reduce energy consumption and waste generation per employee.