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Shell Global Solutions wins Petroleum Economist clean energy award
18/09/2007
Shell Global Solutions’ Carbon and Energy Management (CEM) consultancy has been named as winner of the 2007 Petroleum Economist Cleaner Energy Initiative award.
The CEM consultancy was one of four shortlisted nominations and the success was announced at an award ceremony at the Banqueting House, London, UK (on 12 September).
The Cleaner Energy Initiative award recognises teams and company-wide initiatives that, within the past year, have researched and applied commercially viable new technologies to reduce operating emissions and promote cleaner energy. The CEM programme integrates technology and expertise from across the Shell Group (Shell), gained in reducing Shell’s own carbon dioxide footprint, to benefit other companies facing the same challenges.
Andy Brittain, Global Discipline Leader, Carbon and Energy Management, Shell Global Solutions International BV, says: “Energy is vital for economic activity and growth. Hydrocarbons supply over 80% of the world’s energy, and, consequently, we have to make carbon dioxide management a priority. The CEM programme builds on Shell’s structured energy-efficiency programmes, which, so far, have delivered annual savings of 0.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and 0.3 million tonnes of fuel; the equivalent of 160,000 hot-air balloons of carbon dioxide and 12,000 road tankers of fuel in an 180-km convoy. The multidisciplinary team has found that it is a combination of technology, project economics, operating practices and behaviours that gets results.”
The CEM programme assesses a client’s energy use and carbon dioxide production and compares its current position with optimum operating practices. Strategies for mitigation are then proposed, which may include energy-efficiency or operational improvement programmes, carbon-abatement technologies, fuel-switching options, carbon dioxide sales and carbon allowance trading and offsets.
Shell is the only oil producer to make the independently assessed list of “Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World” – those organisations best able to manage environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities.
Shell continues to research and develop leading-edge technology for carbon dioxide mitigation. Shell Global Solutions is now extending its insights, through the CEM programme, to other energy-intensive industries moving towards a more responsible energy future.