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TotalEnergies: Energy Transition in Shipping: First BioLNG Production Project
at a French Port


 * A large-scale, circular economy project spearheaded by EveRé, Elengy,
TotalEnergies and the CMA CGM Group at Marseille’s major shipping port.

 * Use of BioLNG produced from household waste from the Métropole
Aix-Marseille-Provence.

 * BioLNG to become a renewable energy source to fuel the CMA CGM Group’s
ships, permitting at least a 67% greenhouse gas emissions reduction.

 * A project led by the Coalition for the Energy of the Future, which aims to
step up the pace of development of future energy sources and technologies.

 

EveRé, operator of the multi-process household waste treatment plant
commissioned by Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence, the CMA CGM Group, a world
leader in shipping and logistics, Elengy, a subsidiary of Engie, operating
liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals at Fos-sur-Mer and TotalEnergies
(Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE), a global multi-energy company that produces
and supplies energy, have joined forces to study the feasibility of creating
France’s first production unit for liquefied biomethane (BioLNG), a
low-carbon alternative fuel dedicated to energy transition in the shipping
industry.

Produced by converting the biodegradable part of household waste from the
Marseille Provence region, BioLNG would allow for the decarbonization of
shipping services departing from the Grand Port Maritime in Marseille and
would be used primarily for the CMA CGM Group’s LNG-powered vessels.

The project forms a circular economic system. Using the area’s household
waste will help reduce local air pollutants (nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides
and fine particles), improving air quality and quality of life for people
living in the region and supporting the energy transition in the shipping
industry.

A concrete commitment to energy transition in shipping

BioLNG, combined with the dual-fuel gas engine technology developed by CMA
CGM, reduces greenhouse gas emissions (including carbon dioxide) by at least
67% relative to well-to-wake VLSFO (the complete value chain). On the basis of
a tank-to-wake measurement (at vessel level), greenhouse gas emissions are
reduced by 88%.

Liquefied natural gas allows for a 99% reduction in sulfur oxide emissions, a
91% reduction in fine particles emissions and a 92% reduction in nitrogen
oxide emissions. By the end of 2024, 44 of the CMA CGM Group’s vessels will
be powered by LNG.

A project integrated into the local ecosystem

The project fits perfectly into the local ecosystem, benefiting from the
particularly well-suited and already existing infrastructure at the Grand Port
Maritime, including EveRé’s waste methanization unit, Elengy’s LNG
terminals, which will be used for the storage and delivery of the BioLNG,
TotalEnergies’ bunker vessel, which will be located at the port as of
January 2022, and CMA CGM’s fleet of LNG-powered vessels. The feasibility
study has been launched within the framework of this large-scale project,
which corresponds with the national drive to promote BioLNG as defined in
France’s Mobility Orientation Law.

CMA CGM, Engie and TotalEnergies: three corporations committed to supporting
sustainable mobility

The CMA CGM Group, Engie and TotalEnergies have already been working together
for several months as part of the Coalition for the Energy of the Future,
which aims to step up the pace of development of future energy sources and
technologies and to support new sustainable mobility models, thereby reducing
the environmental impact of transportation and logistics.

In order to make true technological revolutions possible and achieve tangible
results by 2030, the Coalition has set three main targets:


 * to considerably increase clean energy supply sources;

 * to reduce energy consumption per equivalent kilometer transported;

 * to reduce the proportion of emissions attributable to transportation and
logistics.

About CMA CGM

The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics headed up by
Rodolphe Saadé, serves over 420 ports on 5 continents around the world. The
Group’s fleet of 561 ships carried close to 21 million TEU (Twenty-foot
Equivalent Unit) containers in 2020. With its CEVA Logistics subsidiary, a
world-class logistics provider carrying 400,000 tons of air freight and 2.8
million tons of overland freight every year, and CMA CGM Air Cargo, the CMA
CGM Group is constantly innovating to offer its customers end-to-end services
delivering performance gains through ground-breaking shipping, overland, air
freight and logistics solutions.

The CMA CGM Group is committed to leading the energy transition in shipping
and has pioneered the use of alternative fuels. In addition, it has set itself
the goal of being carbon-neutral by 2050. This program of continuous
improvement has yielded concrete results and reduced the Group’s total CO(2)
emissions by 4% in 2020.

Via the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group reaches out to thousands of children
every year with initiatives championing education for all and equal
opportunities. The CMA CGM Foundation also responds to humanitarian crises
with emergency relief by harnessing the Group’s shipping and logistics
expertise to carry humanitarian supplies to wherever they are needed around
the world.

With a network of over 400 offices and 750 warehouses in 160 countries, the
Group employs more than 110,000 staff members worldwide, 2,400 of whom are
based in Marseille where it has its registered office.

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About Elengy

Expert in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Elengy, part of the ENGIE Group,
operates three regulated LNG terminals in France: Montoir-de-Bretagne on the
Atlantic coast, Fos Cavaou and Fos Tonkin in the Mediterranean. As the gateway
to Europe for LNG, the three sites offer the market flexibility for unloading
or loading any type of LNG carrier, transhipping between LNG carriers, loading
trucks with LNG or regasifying LNG for injection into the transport
network.With LNG, an available and competitive solution, Elengy contributes to
the energy transition by reducing the environmental footprint of its
customers. Furthermore, Elengy is developing its services to increase the use
of LNG from now on, and to contribute to carbon neutrality by 2050.

2020 figures: 400 employees - Regasification capacity: more than 20 billion m3
of natural gas per year - Quantity of energy received: more than a third of
French demand - 223 ship calls registered.

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About EveRé

EveRé, a subsidiary of the Urbaser group, is a multi-process household waste
treatment centre, put in operation in 2010, in the Fos-sur-Mer industrial area
(Bouches-du-Rhône, France).As an industrial stakeholder specialising in waste
recovery, EveRé performs with full transparency a public service mission
entrusted by the Aix-Marseille Provence Metropole, under a Public Service
Delegation contract, with the requirement for regulatory and environmental
compliance.

Territoire Marseille Provence (Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropole)

Created on January 2016, the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropole is organized
into six territories. The Territoire Marseille Provence brings together 18
cities and towns, and it has 1,045,000 inhabitants. It manages local fields,
and its mission is in particular to ensure and organize the collection,
treatment and recovery of waste in all of its cities and towns. It represents
an average of 650,000 tons of waste per year. The Territory is also committed
to a process of reducing waste at source, with, in particular, the Territoire
Zéro Déchet - Zero Waste label since 2016. The Territory Marseille-Provence
drives also the promotion of several prevention projects such as raising
awareness among residents, making composting devices available, combating food
waste or promoting re-use and repair.

About TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies is a broad energy company that produces and markets energies on
a global scale: natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Our
105,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, clean,
reliable and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130
countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at
the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of
people.

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