One of the key elements of our sustainability strategy is addressing our own operational emissions, and an encouraging step was made in 2022 on this front with the installation of a solar panel and battery storage unit at the Sarta-1D wellsite.

This development is powering production equipment at the S1 pad and will reduce the use of diesel generators at this location, which will therefore lower our emissions at Sarta. The unit was made operational in July 2022 and by the end of the year had saved 8.8 tonnes of CO2. This achievement represents an incremental step in addressing our own emissions footprint, and our ambitions to progress this further saw our ongoing feasibility study advance to the FEED phase in 2022; the outcome of which aims to extend the solar capacity at Sarta beyond the 1D well pad, to other operational areas of the site, thereby reducing operational emissions further.