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Total and IFPEN Team Up to Accelerate Carbon Reduction R&D

12 July 2019
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— IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) and Total announce that they signed a strategic R&D partnership yesterday, that includes an agreement to endow a chair at the IFP School, on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and technologies to curb CO2 emissions. The roughly €40 million partnership covers a period of five years.

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The agreement has two parts:

  • A strategic R&D partnership on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) aims to reduce the cost of infrastructure and improve the CCUS chain’s energy
    efficiency to secure its large-scale deployment. The partnership steps up the longstanding collaboration between Total and IFPEN by marshaling additional
    resources. The research will focus on fields related to new materials, process scaleup, underground carbon storage in deep saline aquifers, technical and economic
    feasibility studies and the quantification of environmental benefits for the entire
    CCUS chain.
  • The Carbon Management and Negative CO2 Emissions Technologies to NetZero Carbon Future Chair will help train a new generation of international
    researchers and experts who will develop technologies to reduce carbon in the
    atmosphere. Overseen by a scientific committee comprised of world-renowned,
    independent experts, the chair will bring together seven doctoral and five postdoctoral researchers for five years.

Following the signature of the agreement, Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total,
stated: “We are delighted to accelerate the R&D partnership between Total and IFPEN. We
want to pool our innovation capabilities to reduce the cost of CCUS technologies and improve
their efficiency — both of which are necessary for large-scale deployment. Total wants to help
make the planet carbon neutral and boost the competitiveness of an industrial-scale CCUS
sector.”

Didier Houssin, Chairman and CEO of IFPEN, commented: “IFPEN has been actively
researching carbon capture, utilization and storage technologies for nearly 20 years. Our
strengthened partnership with Total will allow us to combine our teams’ skills and know-how with Total’s and thus to accelerate the deployment of CCUS technologies, which are a key
solution for drastically cutting CO2 emissions.”

According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Sustainable Development Scenario,
which corresponds to a less than 2°C rise in the global average temperature, it will be
necessary to capture and store 6 billion tons of carbon by 2050. This will require developing
viable, cost-competitive CCUS technologies.

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