Environment Report 2019

ENVIRONMENT REPORT 2019

4.4 Total Offshore Atmospheric Emissions

Atmospheric emissions for facilities across the UKCS for each operator are shown in Figure 28 below, broken down by type of gas emitted. The majority of emissions are CO 2 , while N 2 O and CH 4 emissions per operator are shown more clearly in Figure 29 which keeps the same relative position for each operator.

On average, 77,960 tonnes of GHG emissions were produced per production installation on the UKCS in 2018, an increase on the average of 64,567 tonnes in 2017.

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 oil platforms located predominantly 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.

Figure 28: GHG Emissions per Operator by Emission Type, 2018

1,800,000

CH₄

N₂O

CO₂

1,600,000

1,400,000

1,200,000

1,000,000

800,000

600,000 Emissions (Tonnes of CO₂e)

400,000

200,000

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Source: EEMS May 2019

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