Participation of the CDER in the scientific and technical day on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, challenges and opportunities, El Aurassi Hotel on February 07, 2018
Round Table 1: The Paris Climate Agreement and opportunities for the gas industry. President: Mr Khaled BOUKHELIFA - Member of the AIG Bureau Key note speaker: Mr Mohamed HAMEL - Adviser at the Ministry of Energy. Panelists: Mr Mohamed Salah BOUZERIBA: General Director of APRUE Mr Rachid BESSAOUD: R20 MED - Regions of Climate Action Mr. Malik MECHHOUD: Sonatrach Central Management HSE.
Concluded at the end of 2015 by the international community, under the aegis of the UN, the Paris Agreement on Climate aims to limit the rise in global temperature, compared to the pre-industrial period, by 2 ° C at the end of the century, by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Faced with this challenge, Algeria is committed to contribute to the global effort through concrete actions. What are these actions? Where are we ? What effects on the climate?
This round table allowed highlighting the climate issue from all angles through the following themes:
1. A restitution of the Paris Agreement on Climate, its context, its objectives, its stakes, its results, the process of implementation and the major actors.
2. Financing mechanisms / tools, the regulatory system, incentives in Algeria, the issue of quantifying the climate benefits of projects and greenhouse gas inventories, the market for tradable CO2 emission permits, etc.
3. The question of the Energy Transition.
4. Algeria’s commitments broken down by the main measures at the level of the Sectors concerned.
5. The strategy to be adopted by the gas industry to contribute to Algeria’s commitments and prepare for the post-2020 period (implementation period of the Paris Agreement) The Paris Climate Agreement and opportunities for the future gas industry.
Round Table 2: Responses of the Gas Industry & Role of Technology for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases.
President: Mr Abdelmadjid ATTAR - Vice-President of AIG Key note speaker: Mr Noureddine YASSAA - Director of the CDER & Member of the IPCC Bureau Panelists:
Representative of Sonatrach E & P activity: Mr MEGHOUCHE Ali Representative of Sonatrach TRC Activity: Mr. IMADALOU Malek Representative of Sonatrach LRP Activity: Mrs ABDELLAH Souad Representative of Sonelgaz SPE Subsidiary Company Representative of the ARH Agency: Miss BENABDELMOUMEN Fadila Representative of the CREG Agency: Mr BELAID Kaci
Table 2 focused on what is or will be done in the future in reducing greenhouse gases.
Of all the greenhouse gases, natural gas in general (conventional or not) is still the subject of some controversy:
Some consider it to be one of the most harmful because of the leakage of methane, which is the main component of natural gas, during its operation, transportation, and use. But we forget that greenhouse gases are 76% of CO2 and only 16% of methane, 40% of which is natural.
On the contrary, others consider it one of the solutions and the main ally of the Renewable Energies to precisely reduce the emission of other greenhouse gases resulting from the consumption of other energy sources such as coal or oil.
This round table discussed the responses of the gas industry and why not the industry in general, that is to say the one that needs energy, which is often energy intensive, and source of gas emissions greenhouse gas, present and future challenges, through three very simple questions:
1- First, are there any ongoing actions, a program, a strategy to achieve the objectives or rather the obligations even if they are not binding in the commitments made by Algeria in terms of reduction of greenhouse gas ? The first questions could be: do we have an accurate inventory and assessed possible methane leaks? What do we plan to reduce or eliminate through all means of detection and measurement? It is the same for all other gases such as CO2?
2- This therefore implies investments, research, and therefore the use of innovation, the use, control and development of new technologies both in terms of gas exploitation, than its use as a primary material or source of energy production. So where are we from the technological point of view?
3- All this is easy to express or display in regulations and strategies adopted by all countries, but very complex to implement for many others, for several reasons. Challenges include, for example, the current energy consumption model and the means or capacities to move it in the right direction, the ability to implement a rigorous energy efficiency program, the internal economic weight of available energy resources, the amount of investment needed, and the lack of support from developed polluting countries to developing countries that have no responsibility for global warming.
As Keynote Speaker of this Round Table, Pr. Yassaa Noureddine, Director of the CDER who is Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group 1, recalled these commitments, the avenues for reflection, and the concrete actions to be implemented to achieve the objectives set.
Subsequently, 5 panellists took turns to go into more detail and explained what is or will be done in response to the questions asked.
Ms Benabdelmoumène Fadila and Mr Belaid Kaci represent respectively the ARH and the CREG, which correspond to the two regulatory institutions most concerned in the energy sector, in terms of monitoring, control and compliance with Hydrocarbons regulations and the electricity and gas market.
Mrs. S. Abdallah, Mr. Imadalou Malek, Meghouche Ali who represent the gas sector in Sonatrach upstream downstream, and that of electricity and natural gas distribution in Sonelgaz. They explained what they plan to implement to be at the appointment in the future, in the reduction of greenhouse gases.
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