REG-TotalEnergies SE TotalEnergies and Veolia Join Forces for the Energy Transition and the Circular Economy

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06/10/2025 08:30

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TotalEnergies and Veolia Join Forces for the Energy Transition and the
Circular Economy

 

Long-standing partners TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE) and
Veolia have signed a memorandum of understanding for further cooperation in
several key areas of energy transition and the circular economy, in line with
their respective approaches to reduce their greenhouse gases emissions and
water footprint. This cooperation will benefit the entire industry through the
scaling up of innovative processes and the advancement of research into
future-oriented challenges.

The two companies will pool their industrial competencies: Veolia will
contribute its expertise in water resource management and resource recovery
from new waste streams, and TotalEnergies its expertise in the measurement and
reduction of methane emissions and the production and supply of low-carbon
energies.


 * Reducing methane emissions from waste storage centers

Veolia is studying the deployment of TotalEnergies’ AUSEA
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, a pioneering technology using drones to measure methane emissions, to
conduct measurement campaigns at its landfills. Initial tests on sites have
demonstrated the technology's ability to provide reliable and replicable
measurements, detect leaks and identify the areas with the highest emissions,
adding to Veolia's existing arsenal a powerful and rapid solution for reducing
emissions.

This deployment will contribute to Veolia's strategy of maximizing the capture
of methane emissions in waste storage centers, with a target of 80% capture by
2032, but also to use the innovative technology beyond the oil and gas
industry.


 * Reducing the industrial sector’s water footprint

Veolia will support TotalEnergies in the implementation of its ambition
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to reduce freshwater withdrawals by 20% by 2030 compared to 2021 at sites
located in areas of water stress, and to improve discharge quality.

Just a few weeks after the signing of a major agreement between Veolia and
SATORP (co-owned by Saudi Aramco and TotalEnergies) in Saudi Arabia
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, the two companies will be working to develop wastewater reuse projects at
TotalEnergies sites, reuse municipal wastewater for the Company's industrial
processes, and deploy Veolia technologies to improve water treatment.


 * Making desalination more sustainable with low-carbon energy

TotalEnergies will support Veolia in accelerating the deployment of low-carbon
energy solutions at desalination plants built or operated by Veolia. The
partners have already jointly built the largest solar power plant for a
seawater desalination facility in Oman
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.

This project reflects Veolia's ambition to double its desalination capacity by
2030, while continuing to reduce the energy footprint of a technology which
already uses ten times less energy than before.


 * Recovering strategic resources from waste

Finally, Veolia and TotalEnergies will also be pooling their research and
innovation capabilities to explore the industrialization of new processes for
recovering strategic chemical elements contained in waste that remain
under-utilized, such as rare earths found in the permanent magnets used in
wind turbines, photovoltaic panels and batteries.

“I am very pleased with the agreement signed today with TotalEnergies: by
combining our expertise, whether in sustainable water management, the circular
economy or the reduction of methane emissions, we are putting our innovation
capabilities at the service of the ecological transformation and the
competitiveness of our industries”, commented Estelle Brachlianoff, Veolia's
Chief Executive Officer.

"We are delighted with this partnership with Veolia. TotalEnergies has
cutting-edge solutions and technologies to offer Veolia and vice versa.
Together, we can make a concrete contribution to the energy transition and the
circular economy. We are convinced that cooperations like those we are
developing with Veolia are very useful to make tangible progress and
sustainably limit the environmental footprint of our companies", said Patrick
Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies.

About TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies is a global integrated energy company that produces and markets
energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas and low-carbon hydrogen,
renewables and electricity. Our more than 100,000 employees are committed to
providing as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more
affordable and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies
places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its
operations.

About Veolia

Veolia's ambition is to become the benchmark company in ecological
transformation. Present on five continents with 215,000 employees, the Group
designs and deploys useful, practical solutions for water, waste and energy
management that help to radically change the way things are done. Through its
three complementary activities, Veolia contributes to developing access to
resources, preserving available resources and renewing them. In 2024, the
Veolia group served 111 million people with drinking water and 98 million with
wastewater services, produced 42 terawatt-hours of energy and processed 65
million metric tons of waste. Veolia Environnement (Paris Euronext: VIE)
achieved consolidated sales of 44.7 billion euros in 2024.

TotalEnergies Contacts

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Contacts Veolia:


 * Relations Médias: 
presse.groupe@veolia.com (mailto:presse.groupe@veolia.com)


 * Relations Investisseurs: + 33 (0)1 85 57 84 76 / 84 80 l 
investor-relations@veolia.com (mailto:investor-relations@veolia.com)

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