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Figure 21: Production Chemicals Discharged to Sea per Operator
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
3,500
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K M O Q S U W Y AA AC AE AG AI
Discharged Production Chemicals (Tonnes)
PLONOR
Substitution Warning
Other*
2015 Operator Mean
2014 Operator Mean
*Other includes those chemicals reported in EEMS that are not classified
as PLONOR or SUB but all chemicals have a permit to be discharged
Source: EEMS July 2016
4.5 Total Offshore Atmospheric Emissions
Atmospheric emissions on the UKCS are permitted by BEIS and recorded in EEMS. The total atmospheric emissions
for facilities across the UKCS for each operator are shown in Figure 22, broken down by type of emission. The
overwhelming majority of emissions are CO
2
and so other emissions have been broken down in Figure 23, keeping
the same relative position for each operator.
An average of just over 67,200 tonnes of total atmospheric emissions were produced per asset on the UKCS in
2015. This is approximately 6 per cent higher than the average of 63,500 tonnes in 2014. The emissions range from
164 tonnes to 1.8 million tonnes, reflecting the range of production on the UKCS.
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 high production and predominantly oil
platforms in the CNS and NNS regions. Those operators that appear to have zero emissions are non-operators and
low production operators and the values are low enough to not be visible on the axis scale used.