Environmental Responsibility
SDX acknowledges our potential impact on the environment as a producer of hydrocarbons. Through fostering a culture of acting in an environmentally-conscious manner, SDX is committed to managing its environmental footprint by:
- reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
- protecting the environment in which we operate;
- minimising any potential adverse impact of its operations on the environment;
- complying with local and international laws.
For example, the carbon intensity of our production sites has been reduced by converting existing instrumentation at well sites to run on solar power and, to reduce our environmental impact at the wellsite in agricultural areas, all produced water is evaporated in lined pits in Morocco or treated offsite in South Disouq.
Morocco
In Morocco, SDX drives CO2 emissions reductions by supporting our customers in the Kenitra area to replace more polluting heavy fuels at their operations with cleaner-burning natural gas across the ceramics, packaging, automotive and food sectors.
Although each industrial process is different, all would require an alternative hydrocarbon fuel without a supply of natural gas, and SDX’s business model specifically targets users with high non-electric energy demands. Per EIA published CO2 emission factors, such fuels would result in higher emissions than natural gas.
In Morocco, scope 3 emissions at our eight industrial customers consisted of 93,900 tons of CO2e in 2022. However, given that these factories would otherwise consume more polluting fuels, the company’s supply of natural gas reduced our customers’ CO2 emissions by 47,600 tons of CO2e during the year versus heavy fuel oil.
South Disouq, Egypt
The development of the South Disouq asset, which was brought into production in November 2019, is a major achievement for SDX.
Throughout the design and fabrication of the South Disouq CPF, environmental impact mitigations were integral to the project. The CPF is powered by produced gas from the South Disouq and Ibn Yunus fields, meaning that it is not reliant on heavier hydrocarbon fuels such as diesel, or the Egyptian national electricity grid, which also has a more carbon intensive fuel mix.
In addition, the CPF condensate export system is designed to minimise methane emissions and a vapour recovery unit is provided to ensure flaring is reduced as much as possible. At South Disouq there is zero routine flaring and this is now also a standard throughout our operated portfolio. There have been no reportable hydrocarbon or chemical spills above a 25 litre threshold at South Disouq to date.
