Environmental Performance in the E&P Industry: Data for 2007 and 2008

Abstract

Abstract Since 2001, the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) has collected environmental performance information from its member companies on an annual basis. This programme has continued and new sets of data for activities in 2007 and 2008 have now been produced. The performance information has been collected under the following five categories: Emissions to air.Aqueous discharges.Discharges of non-aqueous drilling fluids on cuttings.Accidental spillages of oil and chemicals.Energy consumption and flaring. The ultimate aim is to provide a representative statement on the environmental performance in the upstream oil and gas industry. Subsidiary objectives are to provide a basis for individual member companies to compare their environmental performance and to demonstrate the industry's wish for greater transparency concerning its activities to help identify better and more efficient ways of operating. Performance results are presented on a global and regional basis, onshore and offshore, and normalised to hydrocarbon production. Results are shown, for ease of comparison, alongside the previous years' published results. The paper will address the emerging trends in environmental performance as well as factors that underpin the data. 32 OGP member companies took part in the survey representing about a third of known world production. Contributing companies provided data from 62 countries worldwide; however geographical coverage of the reported data remains uneven, ranging from 98% in Europe, to 20% of known production in the Middle East and 8% in the Former Soviet Union.