Mesaieed Petrochemical Holding Company (MPHC) Group continues to invest in environmental projects to optimise and efficiently use natural resources and reduce the generation of emissions, effluents, and waste.
Through such capital investments, the Group’s aim is to improve the environ-mental performance of oper-ations, while enhancing the reliability and safety of operations.
The Group recognises the importance of reducing energy consumption in order to minimise the environ-mental impacts as well as increase the company’s oper-ational efficiency, noted the first sustainability report by the Group.
The report outlines per-formance and steps taken by Qatar Chemical Company (Q-Chem), Qatar Chemical Company II (Q-Chem II) and Qatar Vinyl Company (QVC).Unlike most manufac-turers across the world, the Group uses natural gas as a primary energy source for producing petrochemicals and derivative products (consti-tutes 89 percent of total production of the group) which is cleaner and more environmentally friendly than the other methods of gener-ating energy.
“Since we operate in a country in one of the highest water stressed regions of the world, water efficiency is an integral part of our environ-mental management approach. To overcome our water scarcity challenges, the wastewater treatment units at Group Companies enable to treat water and reuse it in operations and for irri-gation,” said the sustainability report.
Group Companies also have implemented several projects including Zero or Near Zero liquid discharge projects with the aim reusing wastewater in the production process and reduce freshwater consumption.
Group Companies adopt comprehensive procedures for identification, segregation, collection and disposal of waste generated from oper-ations.
Companies send a summary of all waste ship-ments for hazardous wastes to Ministry of Municipality and Environment periodically.As part of Q-Chem’s oper-ational excellence, the Company aims to reduce energy usage and improve energy efficiency throughout all of Q-Chem’s operations.
Q-Chem’s total energy con-sumption for all operations dropped 12 percent in 2020, with energy intensity also dropping a respectable 2 percent over last year. This was a result of several initia-tives implemented to optimize energy consumption.
In 2020, the Company has reduced its upstream respon-sible events by 69 percent compared to 2015, maintaining lowest Environmental Reportable Incident Rate and zero company responsible events in company’s history.
Q-Chem continued to improve its environmental performance, spurring innovation and ownership among employees through effective Pollution Prevention Programs that have been recently implemented to include envi-ronmental aspects, such as flaring reduction, waste minimization, energy optimization, and chemicals management.
In addition, the Company started selecting monthly champions for house-keeping and waste segregation to engage employees in the process of maintaining its facilities clean and tidy. In 2020, the total GHG emissions were reduced by 8.3 percent over the past year.
Given the water scarcity issue in the region, the Companies under-stand the importance of water con-servation and the efficient man-agement of water sources. In line with this, the Companies continue to increase their treated wastewater recycling, while moving forward towards the Company’s aim in reaching near zero liquid discharge in the near future.The companies 2020 water per-formance was aligned with this strategy, reducing freshwater consumption and water discharged to sea by 3 percent and 10 percent, respectively, while increasing water recycling intensity by 18 percent over last year.
Q-Chem witnessed a remarkable improvement in waste generation and treatment this year. The company managed to decrease waste disposal by 16 percent, which reflected in a 2 percent drop in waste intensity.Simultaneously, it worked on increasing the percentage of waste recycled out of total waste generated to achieve a rate that is 27 percent higher than last year.
In support of the efforts to have a safe and cost-effective waste disposal method at Q-Chem II, an innovative waste management plan was put in place and implemented successfully and 100 percent of waste was disposed of safely in 2020
