英国油气行业实施未来30年净零排放计划

中国石化新闻网讯 据今日油价网站1月30日消息 英国石油天然气行业协会首席执行官Deirdre Michie周四表示，由于英国北海运营商支持政府承诺在2050年前将温室气体排放量降至净零，因此英国石油天然气行业计划在2050年前成为以自身生产排放量计算的净零油气盆地。

去年6月，英国成为世界上第一个将其到2050年将温室气体排放量减至零的目标写入法律的主要经济体。

此后，英国石油天然气行业通过其行业机构OGUK承诺，将努力实现英国和苏格兰政府的减排目标，抓住氢经济和碳捕获利用与封存（CCUS）带来的机遇。

今天，OGUK首席执行官Michie在苏格兰爱丁堡发表演讲称，根据气候变化委员会的展望，英国海上石油和天然气行业将力争在2050年前将其自身排放量从目前的1400万吨（目前占英国温室气体排放总量的3%）减少到50万吨。

油气行业协会首席执行官指出：“这将需要大量投资、新技术以及与苏格兰和整个英国的可再生能源部门密切合作。”

该行业机构的第二个净零承诺是支持大规模发展CCUS和其他低碳技术，因为CCUS在所有脱碳方案中都是必需的。

Michie说：“我们希望与各国政府和监管机构合作，在英国各地推进五个CCUS项目，这些项目现在需要进入下一阶段。”

石油和天然气行业协会负责人表示，氢气也是实现净零排放的一个机会，因为它可能成为清洁能源组合中潜在的重要参与者。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

UK Oil & Gas Industry Embraces Net Zero Emissions Plan By 2050

The UK’s oil and gas industry plans to become a net zero oil and gas basin in terms of own production emissions by 2050, as the UK North Sea operators support the government’s commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, Deirdre Michie, the chief executive of the OGUK industry association, said on Thursday.

In June last year, the UK became the first major economy in the world to enshrine in a law its target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050.

Since then, the UK oil and gas industry, via its industry body OGUK, has pledged that it would work toward the UK and Scottish government goals to cut emissions and seize opportunities presented by the hydrogen economy and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS).

Today, OGUK’s chief executive Michie said in a speech in Edinburgh, Scotland, that the UK offshore oil and gas industry would aim to reduce its own emissions from 14 million tons today – currently 3 percent of the UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions – to 0.5 mt by 2050, in line with the Climate Change Committee outlook.

“It will require significant investment, new technology and close working with the renewables sector in Scotland and across the UK,” the CEO of the oil and gas industry association noted.

The second ‘net zero commitment’ of the industry body is to support the development of CCUS and other low carbon tech at scale, because CCUS would be required in all decarbonization scenarios.

“We are looking to work with governments and regulators to progress the five CCUS projects across the UK which now need to move at pace into the next phase,” Michie said.

Hydrogen is also an opportunity in the path toward net zero emissions, because it could become a “potentially disruptive player in the clean energy mix,” the oil and gas industry’s association chief said.