Paris –- On the occasion of VivaTech’s 10th anniversary, TotalEnergies is showcasing MethaneLive, its new global methane emissions monitoring center. It leverages real-time data and advanced algorithms to detect, measure, and analyze emissions with a view to reducing them.
In 2025, TotalEnergies deployed permanent, real-time methane emissions monitoring through the installation of 13,000 sensors across all its operated onshore and offshore Upstream sites. The Company is currently the only one in the industry to have deployed such a system across its operated assets.
These sensors generate a large volume of data. By combining advanced digital tools with the expertise of MethaneLive teams, this data is analyzed in real time to alert operators, identify the root causes of anomalies, and recommend the most appropriate corrective actions.
Since its launch in early 2026, MethaneLive has detected 35 fugitive methane emissions at various facilities—emissions that would have been difficult to identify without real-time data analysis—and enabled their correction through targeted maintenance operations.
This foundation now enables the deployment of agentic AI solutions to go further, by more effectively targeting the highest-emitting equipment and improving the detection of fugitive emissions.
Recognizing the central role of the Oil & Gas sector in global methane emissions, TotalEnergies has been committed to reducing them for many years. Since 2022, the Company has been committed to aiming for near-zero methane emissions at its operated Upstream sites by 2030. This ambition is built on two pillars: accurately measuring methane emissions and relentlessly reducing them.
“The use of real-time data is a concrete driver that helps make our operations more reliable, safer, more efficient, and more sustainable. The value of digital technologies and AI is built over time, at the intersection of technology and people. Thanks to the quality of our data and the expertise of TotalEnergies’ teams, we are making digital a key driver in the fight against methane emissions,” said Namita Shah, President OneTech at TotalEnergies.
