China National Petroleum Leads Global Energy Sustainable Development with Green Practices
Published time:
2025-08-11
Against the backdrop of the accelerated global energy transition, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) deeply integrates the concept of green development into its global business layout, setting a benchmark for the sustainable development of the global energy industry through ecological protection innovation, clean energy layout, and participation in international climate governance.
Against the backdrop of accelerated global energy transition, China National Petroleum Corporation deeply integrates the concept of green development into its global business layout. Through ecological protection innovation, clean energy layout, and participation in international climate governance, it sets a benchmark for the sustainable development of the global energy industry.
In the field of ecological protection, China National Petroleum Corporation demonstrates its scientific governance capabilities for sensitive environments. In Ecuador, Sinopec has built environmentally friendly cluster well sites in tropical rainforests, implemented clean and green drilling, and adopted special technologies such as cuttings reinjection, sewage treatment, and zero discharge of mud to reduce the total amount of pollutants generated. It has successively built comprehensive environmental management centers to realize the recycling, sorting, and reuse of all solid waste, as well as the recycling, reuse, and reinjection of liquid waste. A carbon emission statistics and accounting team was established to sort out the carbon emissions from oilfield construction and production, and to organize and implement various carbon reduction measures. The collection, recovery, and utilization of associated gas are being promoted in an orderly manner, and the associated gas is used to make liquefied petroleum gas for use by surrounding communities, which not only saves operating costs but also reduces the burning and direct emissions of associated gas, reducing the impact on the tropical rainforest ecological environment.
In the Middle East, it is deeply involved in the 950 MW photovoltaic and photothermal integrated project in Dubai, UAE, which can meet the clean power needs of hundreds of thousands of households after it is put into operation; it is laying out wind power projects in the Central Asian market to promote the integrated development of traditional oil and gas businesses and new energy industries; in the Asia-Pacific region, Singapore International Business Corporation took the lead in launching bio-bunker fuel business in the ship refueling market, and simultaneously deployed charging piles in the gas station network to help build a local green transportation system.
Faced with the global climate change challenge, China National Petroleum Corporation actively participates in international governance. As the only Chinese member of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, it took the initiative to sign the 'Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter' and established a full-process carbon emission control system. In the Australian Arrow project, it innovatively constructed a “management-accounting-offset” three-dimensional carbon governance model, and obtained 38,000 tons of carbon credits in fiscal year 2024, providing practical experience for Chinese-funded enterprises to participate in the international carbon market. At the relevant meetings of the 'United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change', it continued to promote international cooperation on methane emission reduction, demonstrating the responsibility of an energy company.

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