SKA GHG Taskforce: July 2024

 

Alhamdulillah, am very grateful for the privilege to be working and collaborating with our Sarawak Assets Greenhouse Gas (SKA-GHG) Taskforce, being appointed as the Team Leader for Workstream 2: Energy Efficiency and Combustion gases. 

This taskforce was setup to look into how we - as upstream asset operators - can play a more proactive part towards GHG reduction and abatement efforts, towards fulfilling our organizational aspiration of Net Zero Carbon Emissions (NZCE) by 2050. When the team was initially setup, our workstream focus was simple: "look into combustion GHG, see how we're doing and where we are at." Since it was a relatively 'process-related' task, I volunteered to step up as the Team Leader to help steer the team and form a mutually beneficial collaboration with our center GHG experts from Carbon Management Division (CMD) and Enterprise Decarbonization (ED). 

Little did we know that it will be one massive epic journey that would have such a major impact over the years - Resulting in huge savings from our optimization and over-correction, from tasks such as our Fuel Gas baselining and optimization and Fuel Gas Leaning studies. 

And from there, bit by bit, we grew in scope, depth, and aspirations. 

Over the years, the Taskforce one of my favorite assignments at work, as it slowly evolved to become our own centralized think-tank and action team to brainstorming, prioritizing, strategizing and challenging GHG efforts, while at the same time playing "devil's advocate" to question ourselves "if this is worth it", and "what value we get from this" (Thanks, of course to our always-out-of-the-box GHG Champion who-never-fails-to-keep-you-on-your-toes, Shamsawi Ahmad), and practice "Innovate Now" and "Courage to Act" by trying out new and exciting stuff to "see what sticks". 

I also found it to be very engaging and exciting lesson in collaboration: learning from other workstreams, especially the Methane Quantification, the Venting/Flaring Reduction, as well as Carbon Capture & Storage teams, as we learn how every individual team member and effort plays a piece of the puzzle towards the overall effort in GHG reduction, equipping us with essential technical and leadership competencies, as we steer our organization towards NZCE 2050.

To me, this is an excellent success story of what it looks like to establish a task force to effectively form platform to inculcate our Cultural Beliefs - Be Enterprising, Innovate Now, Speak Up and Courage to Act. 

Thank you once again, for your knowledge, support, guidance, encouragement and gifts. Been an honor to collaborate with the team!