Emissions Mitigations Techniques
Abstract
SGN Innovation is exploring how to support its operational colleagues in implementing tools and practices to mitigate emissions coming from pipeline operations. This work is driven by SGN’s GD3 Environmental Action Plan, which sets a target to reduce operational carbon emissions by 46% relative to the 2019 baseline, with a long-term target of net zero by 2045.
Whilst the Environmental Action Plan and the Network Asset Management Strategy articulate what SGN will invest in, there be an “operational pathway” in how these ambitions translate into day-to-day operational decision-making, as well as ensuring that the competing requirements on operational staff (efficiency vs emissions reduction, for example) are addressed and appropriate guidance and prioritisation given.
This project creates a pragmatic approach to bridge the identified operational gap by establishing a decision framework and playbook for commissioning and decommissioning pipelines that embeds gas drawdown as a default activity, with the potential, if successful, to expand to other areas of implementing the Environmental Action Plan. The aim is to enable SGN’s and other Network workforce to deliver consistent, efficient emissions reductions across GD3.
