Environment Report 2016

ENVIRONMENT REPORT 2016

Figure 21: Production Chemicals Discharged to Sea per Operator

3,500

PLONOR Substitution Warning Other* 2015 Operator Mean 2014 Operator Mean

3,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

Discharged Production Chemicals (Tonnes)

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*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.

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