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Climate Change Action

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    Our approach

    Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing our planet — a challenge requiring collaborative and coordinated action, as well as investment at local, regional and global levels. QatarEnergy is committed to playing its part. 

    Our sustainability strategy and actions are guided and informed by the State of Qatar’s commitment to the Paris Agreement, as reflected in the Qatar National Vision (QNV) 2030 and the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP). 

    As one of the largest producers and suppliers of natural gas, we recognize the important role we can play in global efforts rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support the transition to a low-carbon energy system. We are proactively working on reducing the GHG intensity across our upstream operations (including LNG facilities) and downstream assets, and developing renewable power generation in Qatar. At an international level, by supplying LNG produced with a lower-carbon intensity, we help meet current and future energy demand while supporting customers to replace high-carbon intensity fuels with a cleaner alternative. We are also developing clean energy vectors such as blue ammonia and are supporting renewables infrastructure developments internationally.

     

    ​To support our approach on climate change action, we have defined a number of short- and medium-term targets to lower emissions. Key focus areas for our near-term actions include:

    • ​Growing our LNG portfolio while reducing emission intensities of our LNG facilities
    • Reducing methane emissions and flaring from our facilities
    • Improving energy efficiency across operations
    • Developing low-carbon energy via renewables through solar deployment
    • Developing lower-carbon energy vectors through producing blue ammonia
    • Deploying carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

    As part of our ongoing commitment to addressing climate change, in 2024 we set new targets to further reduce GHG emissions intensities from our downstream facilities. Our new GHG targets include reducing emissions intensities by 15% for the petrochemical and 15% for the fertilizer sectors, and 10% for metals sector by 2035. To achieve these targets, we will continue focusing on improving energy efficiency across our assets, optimizing processes, using solar energy to power our facilities, and embedding circularity, among others.​



    Our 5C Framework

    We aim to meet our climate change targets through the implementation of our 5C Climate Change Framework: consolidate, curb, create, compensate, and circulate.



    Supplying lower-carbon LNG

    QatarEnergy continues to grow its LNG portfolio by expanding its production capacity while reducing carbon intensity. We aim to achieve a capacity of 160 million tons per year post-2030, solidifying our role as a major provider of cleaner energy solutions globally. This capacity target includes the North Field West Expansion Project announced by QatarEnergy in 2024. 

    Advanced energy-efficient technologies and carbon capture systems are being integrated into new LNG facilities, alongside ongoing improvements in existing operations to reduce emissions and flaring. 

    Our efforts encompass the entire LNG value chain, mitigating emissions from natural gas extraction and production to LNG delivery. In shipping, we are modernizing our fleet with advanced vessels designed for higher efficiency and equipped with dual-fuel systems that utilize LNG as the primary fuel.​

    Read our latest Sustainability Report​ for more information about our performance and our emission reduction initiatives.​

    Reducing emissions from our facilities

    Methane emissions reductions

    Mitigating methane emissions is a top priority for QatarEnergy. We are a member of the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP 2.0) and the Methane Guiding Principles (MGP), as well as a signatory of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative’s (OGCI’s) Aiming for Zero methane emissions initiative. We are aiming at achieving near-zero methane emissions across all our operations.

    We focus on all sources of methane emissions, including incomplete combustion, flaring, venting, and fugitive leaks in our operations. We have implemented Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) programs across all of our assets in Qatar. We are also making changes to how we operate to minimize emissions. For example, by improving subsurface operations, we minimize the need for workovers, leading to lower methane emissions. 

    Flare reductions

    Reducing flaring to a minimum in the short term and eliminating routine flaring by 2030 is a priority for QatarEnergy. We have worked to reduce flaring for several decades through initiatives such as the Al Shaheen Oil Field Gas Recovery and Utilization Project in 2007, flaring mitigation program at Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC) in 2012, and the LNG loading facilities Jetty Boil-Off Gas (JBOG) Project in 2014. We continue enhancing tools and processes to accurately quantify flaring emissions (e.g., by installing flare meters) and analyze data to identify and correct issues leading to flaring events. 

    Energy efficiency improvements

    Energy efficiency is integral to QatarEnergy’s strategy of reducing operational emissions across our operated and non-operated assets. Our energy efficiency program includes upstream (including LNG), refining and GTL, and petrochemical assets. It focuses on monitoring energy consumption, benchmarking it against design conditions, and using key performance indicators to minimize the energy consumption gap between plant operation and the baseline design case. The program also explores initiatives to achieve further savings in fuel consumption and feed gas. Our target is to achieve 150 MMSCFD of total natural gas savings by 2030.

    Read our latest Sustainability Report​ for more information about our performance and our emission reduction initiatives.

    Developing lower-carbon energy

    Solar energy​

    Mitigating methane emissions is a top priority for QatarEnergy. We are a member of the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership (OGMP 2.0) and the Methane Guiding Principles (MGP), as well as a signatory of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative’s (OGCI’s) Aiming for Zero methane emissions initiative. We are aiming at achieving near-zero methane emissions across all our operations.

    We focus on all sources of methane emissions, including incomplete combustion, flaring, venting, and fugitive leaks in our operations. We have implemented Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) programs across all of our assets in Qatar. We are also making changes to how we operate to minimize emissions. For example, by improving subsurface operations, we minimize the need for workovers, leading to lower methane emissions. 

    Producing lower-carbon ammonia​

    Reducing flaring to a minimum in the short term and eliminating routine flaring by 2030 is a priority for QatarEnergy. We have worked to reduce flaring for several decades through initiatives such as the Al Shaheen Oil Field Gas Recovery and Utilization Project in 2007, flaring mitigation program at Ras Laffan Industrial City (RLIC) in 2012, and the LNG loading facilities Jetty Boil-Off Gas (JBOG) Project in 2014. We continue enhancing tools and processes to accurately quantify flaring emissions (e.g., by installing flare meters) and analyze data to identify and correct issues leading to flaring events.

    Read our latest Sustainability Report​ for more information about our performance and our emission reduction initiatives.

    Deploying CCUS

    Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is central to QatarEnergy’s lower-carbon strategy. So far, we have successfully deployed 2.2 million metric tons per year (MTPA) of CCS capacity in Qatar, capturing CO2 from feed gas used in LNG trains and sales gas assets, contributing to lower-carbon LNG exports. 

    QatarEnergy aims to scale its CCS capacity to 7–9 MTPA by 2030 and over 11 MTPA by 2035. Our North Field East (NFE), North Field South (NFS), and North Field West (NFW) expansion projects will be integrated with CCS infrastructure, targeting total capacity of over 5.5 MTPA once fully operational.

    Read our latest Sustainability Report​ for more information about our performance and our emission reduction initiatives.

    Embracing circularity​

    We actively investigate and invest in opportunities that support circularity as it:

    • ​promotes closed-loop systems that minimize landfill waste and extend product lifecycles
    • improves resource efficiency through reduced demand for raw materials

    • reduces the overall environmental impact.

    Read our latest Sustainability Report for more information about our performance and our emission reduction initiatives.
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    Last updated in November 2025​​
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