Congo_Lower Congo_Deepwater

Congo_Lower Congo_Deepwater is an oil & gas field in Congo. It extracts crude oil and natural gas at the wellhead. It emits about 2,038,943 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 475,278 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-53058687.

En contexto: cómo se compara esta instalación

Subsector: oil-and-gas-production. Los campos y plantas de extracción de petróleo y gas operan compresores, equipos de separación y tratadores calefaccionados; la pérdida de calor de vapor y tuberías calientes reduce la eficiencia de extracción.

Comparación de capacidad e intensidad de CO₂ calculada a partir de datos de instalaciones industriales de Climate TRACE; papel del sector basado en referencia de ingeniería.

What 2,038,943 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Local climate

Congo_Lower Congo_Deepwater sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 5.4°S in the southern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Congo_Lower Congo_Conventional shelf · Oil & Gas Field · 4,500,184 t CO₂
• Congo_Lower Congo_LNG · Oil & Gas Field · 1,090,764 t CO₂
• CORAF Pointe Noire Refinery · Refinery · 84,472 t CO₂
• Cabinda Oil Refinery · Refinery
• Democratic Republic of Congo_Lower Congo_Conventional shelf · Oil & Gas Field · 674,748 t CO₂
• Congo_Lower Congo_Heavy oil · Oil & Gas Field · 260,125 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates -5.42582, 11.30885. View on OpenStreetMap.

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