Lowering Our Carbon Footprint
We are lowering our carbon footprint by optimizing the operations of our assets, making select investments in renewables and lower-carbon products, and continuing to expand our natural gas business.
What is “Carbon Intensity” and why does it matter?
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Our GHG emissions reduction performance is an indicator of how efficiently we operate our facilities and our reduction target drives us to implement initiatives that reduce the GHG emissions intensity of our company. It encompasses both Scope 1 emissions — direct emissions from our operations — and Scope 2 emissions — indirect emissions from the electricity and steam we purchase to support our business activities.
We have reduced our greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity significantly since 2014 through our energy efficiency measures and the diversification of our portfolio. Overall, our energy efficiency efforts have avoided emitting millions of tons of GHGs per year. In addition, the acquisition and expansion of our Natural Gas and NGL Services facilities has helped lower our company-wide GHG emissions intensity.
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Improving Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency is one of our key metrics with both environmental and financial benefits. By identifying where energy can be conserved cost-effectively, we reduce our operating costs and reduce our environmental footprint.
Our "Focus on Energy" program is our holistic approach to improving energy efficiency to drive continuous improvement and reduce GHG emissions. The program has helped us avoid the equivalent of over 1.3 billion Btu/hour of energy use, which saved over $28 million in 2024. This is roughly the same amount of energy used by over 80,000 homes or 140,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles.
Reducing Methane Emissions
Through MPC's master limited partnership, MPLX LP, we operate one of the largest natural gas gathering and processing networks in the country. Natural gas, which consists primarily of methane, emits about half the carbon dioxide of coal when used to generate electricity.
We have established MPLX’s “Focus on Methane” program as a holistic approach to voluntarily reduce methane emissions along all aspects of MPLX’s Natural Gas and NGL Services operations. Some key focus areas we are actively addressing include reducing emissions from pipeline launchers and receivers, lowering fugitive emissions from equipment, replacing pneumatic controllers, optimizing maintenance venting, reducing flaring and employing advanced monitoring technologies.
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