Patrick Pouyanné
Chairman & CEO TotalEnergies
To help accelerate action to reduce methane emissions to near zero by 2030, TotalEnergies is sharing its cuttingedge drone-based methane emissions detection and measurement system AUSEA( Airborne Ultralight Spectrometer for Environmental Applications) with companies on three continents.
TotalEnergies has signed cooperation agreements with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, India’ s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Oil India Ltd, Petrobras in Brazil, SOCAR in Azerbaijan and Sonangol in Angola.
The agreements allow them to use AUSEA to better understand and abate methane emissions at their operations.
Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman & CEO, says:“ Cutting methane emissions from operations is a priority as technologies are available. The first step is to measure emissions, asset by asset.
“ By making our AUSEA technology available to our partners, TotalEnergies is taking a concrete step to encourage the whole industry, including national companies, to aim for zero methane emissions.”
The AUSEA gas analyser, developed by TotalEnergies and its research and development partners, has a dual sensor that can pinpoint the presence and the source of methane and CO 2 emissions.
94 April 2026