To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 11 November 2022 to Question 77366 on Fossil Fuels, if she will publish (a) the underlying assumptions that were used to set out the abatement scenarios for production emissions from oil and gas in the 2023 Carbon Budget Delivery Plan, (b) which oil and gas fields were included in the analysis, (c) how emissions from new fields were estimated and (d) whether any life extensions of fields were included; and if she will make a statement.
Answered on
11 September 2023
The abatement scenarios for production emissions from oil and gas in the 2023 Carbon Budget Delivery Plan came from the North Sea Transition Authority. More information can be found in their 2022 Emissions Monitoring Report, available here. Projected emissions for a small number of recent and new installations are based on operators’ emissions forecasts collected in the 2022 UKCS Stewardship Survey. Information about specific fields is commercially sensitive.