Environment Report 2018

4.4. Total Offshore Atmospheric Emissions The total atmospheric emissions for facilities across the UKCS for each operator are shown in Figure 24 below, broken down by type of emission. The majority of emissions are CO 2 and so other emissions have been broken down further in Figure 25, keeping the same relative position for each operator.

On average, 64,567 tonnes of GHG emissions were produced per production installation on the UKCS in 2017, an improvement on the average of 72,500 tonnes in 2016.

Although this benchmarking does not take into account the age, size and number of installations each operator has, in general, those with higher emissions are the larger operators with greater production levels and predominantly oil-producing platforms in the central and northern North Sea regions. Those operators that appear to have zero emissions are low-production operators and the values are low enough to not be visible on the axis scale used.

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Figure 24: Total Atmospheric Emissions per Operator by Emission Type, 2017

1,600,000

VOC

CH₄

CO

SO₂

N₂O

Noₓ

CO₂

1,400,000

1,200,000

1,000,000

800,000

600,000

Emissions (Tonnes)

400,000

200,000

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Y

T

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K

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D

H

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JJ

U

N

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Q

LL

M

W

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EE

KK

CC

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Source: EEMS October 2018

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