The Shareholders' Newsletter SN#64

Strategy - Total, increasing energy while decreasing emissions

STRATEGY

Total, increasing energy while decreasing emissions

In anticipation of the evolutions expected and detailed in the Total Energy Outlook scenarios, the Group is accelerating the shift toward a Net Zero society.

Total’s aim is to meet the growing world energy demand while developing an increasingly decarbonized energy mix, and ensuring ever greener operations.

Total is transforming itself into a broad energy company as part of an integrated strategy based on 4 pillars :

NATURAL GAS:

  • Grow Liquefied Natural Gas production (world no.2) and develop biogas and clean H2.
  • Promote natural gas for power and mobility.

ELECTRICITY:

  • Accelerate investments in electricity, primarily from renewables.
  • Integrate along the value chain (production, storage, trading, supply).

OIL PRODUCTS:

  • Focus investments on low cost oil
    and biofuels.
  • Adapt refining capacities and sales to demand in Europe.

CARBON NEUTRALITY:

  • Invest in carbon sinks (forests, wetlands, etc.) and in CCUS (CO2 capture, storage and use).


Implementing this strategy will lead to a diversification of the energy mix in the products Total sells to its customers :

ENERGY SOLD TO OUR CUSTOMERS 

PJ/yr


  • 2019 (% of sales) : Petroleum products : 55 %, Natural gas : 40 %, Electrons : 5 %
  • 2030 (% of sales) : Petroleum products : 35 % (decreased from 2019), Biofuels, Natural gas : 50 %, Biogaz, H2,  Electrons: 15% (increased 2019)

In the next decade, oil products sales from Total will diminish by almost 30% and Total’s sales mix will become 30% oil products, 5% biofuels, 50% gases and 15% electrons, essentially renewable.

ALLARD Denis - Total

Natural gas is one of the key factors in the energy transition.