Wireline Issue 48 - Summer 2020

News

Below: OGUK sets out the route for lowering production emissions in its Pathway to a Net-Zero Basin report. Right: OGUK sustainability director Michael Tholen.

OGUK charts pathway to offshore emissions reduction The UK’s offshore oil and gas industry has committed to halving operational emissions in the next decade, confirming its pathway to becoming a net zero emissions basin by 2050. The sector is one of the first in the UK to commit to industry-wide targets and provide details on how they will be achieved. An OGUK report titled The Pathway to Net Zero: Production Emissions Targets , outlines how these targets will be achieved through changes to operations, progressive reductions in flaring and venting, and major capital investment programmes aimed at using electricity rather than gas, to power offshore facilities. The targets form a key part of a transformational sector deal now in formal discussion with the UK Government. With jobs, the supply chain and energy communities at its core, this sector deal will consider how the UK’s oil and gas industry can support a green recovery.

This could see the sector support wider UK efforts to decarbonise, using its skills and

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