Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates

تحت رعاية صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن زايد آل نهيان، رئيس دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة

Supported by

Georges Tijbosch

Chief Executive and Board Member

MiQ

Georges
Georges

Georges Tijbosch is Chief Executive and Board Member at MiQ (Methane Intelligence), a not-for-profit climate tech foundation, providing the blueprint for the reduction of methane emissions in the oil and gas sector.

Alongside RMI and SYSTEMIQ, Georges helped launch MiQ in 2019. Under Georges’ leadership, MiQ has become the largest certification initiative for methane emissions in the oil and gas sector, certifying over 5% of the global gas supply.

Georges is the former Director of Origination at Centrica. Before that, Georges was a director at London investment bank commodity trading desks, including Director of Energy Sales at Goldman Sachs, Head of EMEA Energy Marketing at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Head of EMEA Commodity Finance at JP Morgan.

Georges began his career in 1996 at BP Benelux as Sales and Marketing Manager for fuels and lubricants, and joined BP’s London trading floor in 2000 as Senior Marketer, Oil Derivatives.

Session Overview
Monday, 4 November
13:00
Decarbonisation Conference Decarbonisation Theatre 13:00 - 14:00
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Role of policy and regulation in ending routine flaring and achieving near zero methane emissions

Flaring operations contribute significantly to climate change by releasing both carbon and methane into the atmosphere. However, by implementing robust policies and regulations that mandate monitoring, reporting, and abatement of emissions, countries can effectively eliminate routine flaring, minimise non-routine flaring, and achieve near zero methane operations. This not only helps combat climate change but also creates opportunities to bolster energy supply by utilising the natural gas that would otherwise have been flared, whether for on-site power generation or sale on the market. Addressing flaring and methane in tandem is essential to attain sustainable and energy-efficient operations.

Attendee insights:

This session will explore policy and regulation strategies aimed at ending routine flaring and mitigating methane emissions as well as the implementation strategies needed to implement them.

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