TotalEnergies SE is joining seven major companies to create an international coalition supporting the development of production and use of e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic natural gas produced from renewable hydrogen and CO2. e-NG can be transported and/or liquefied and then sold like natural gas, using existing infrastructure. It thus can be used by end customers without any adaptation to their facilities, making it a particularly interesting synthetic fuel to support their decarbonization efforts.

TotalEnergies and its partners ? Engie, Mitsubishi Corporation, Osaka Gas, Sempra Infrastructure, TES, Tokyo Gas and Toho Gas ? are pooling their expertise and efforts to establish the ?e-NG Coalition?, whose purpose is to support e-NG development in a reliable, affordable and sustainable way.

The coalition aims to: promote the use of e-NG and support the emergence of a global market; foster adequate support by policymakers and harmonization of applicable regulation and standards; and bolster collaboration between the various stakeholders, along the entire value chain and across all geographies. TotalEnergies is currently studying the ?Live Oak e-NG? project with Tree Energy Solutions (TES), to produce 100,000 to 200,000 tons of e-NG per year in the United States by 2030.

The e-NG Coalition will therefore benefit from the expertise TotalEnergies acquires through this project, as well as its expertise in renewable power generation, large-scale project management, gas liquefaction, and green hydrogen project development.