Dirk de Bruyn

Vice President – Global Mining TotalEnergies

Dirk is a mining engineer from South Africa and started his working career with 8 years in an underground mining production environment before moving across to the Oil & Energy sector.

During his career Dirk has lived and worked in South Africa, Zambia, West Africa, East Africa, Asia, Central America and is now a member of TotalEnergies’ B2B Solutions team at the company head office in Paris, France.

Dirk currently leads TotalEnergies’ Global Mining Segment with a team focused on decarbonising the mining segment through the introduction of TotalEnergies’ low-carbon and no-carbon products and services.

2024 Agenda Sessions

Developing Net-Zero Mines in Africa; pipe dream or smart business choice?

•   What role do renewables have to play to bring down a mine’s emissions?
•   Developing renewable fuels in Africa.
•   What to do with those last, hard to abate emissions; can African nature-based carbon offset projects play a legitimate role?
•   How can carbon offsets be done “right”?

Wednesday 07 February 13:00 - 13:45 Stewards Stage

Sustainability Series

Add to calendar 02/07/2024 13:00 02/07/2024 13:45 Developing Net-Zero Mines in Africa; pipe dream or smart business choice? •   What role do renewables have to play to bring down a mine’s emissions?
•   Developing renewable fuels in Africa.
•   What to do with those last, hard to abate emissions; can African nature-based carbon offset projects play a legitimate role?
•   How can carbon offsets be done “right”?
Stewards Stage Africa/Johannesburg

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