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Motion · S5M-22051 · 16 Jun 2020

UK Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Outlines Plan to Cut Emissions

Lodged by Alexander Burnett (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) Standard Motion 18 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes news that 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; notes that 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; welcomes the report, The Pathway to Net Zero: Production Emissions Targets, published by the industry body, OGUK, which outlines how 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, and believes that this could see the sector support wider UK efforts to decarbonise, using its skills and infrastructure to develop critical carbon-cutting solutions such as industrial scale carbon capture, usage and storage, and the use of hydrogen for heating and heavy transport.

Supporters (18)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.