雪佛龙支持NDC石油设备设施环保退役研究

据3月6日Offshore Energy报道，英国国家海上设施退役中心(NDC)和石油巨头雪佛龙公司签署了一项协议，该协议将支持NDC的研究工作，直到2023年。

阿伯丁大学(University of Aberdeen)周四表示，该合作项目将资助一系列研究项目，旨在更好地量化退役对环境的影响，并从环境角度为最佳选择提供指导。

这些项目将集中于监测作为人造海洋生境的设施和管道周围的鱼类资源的技术、潜在退役相关物质的生物利用度，以及对所留下的近海基础设施的寿命和最终命运进行建模。

NDC主任、阿伯丁大学的理查德·尼尔森(Richard Neilson)对NDC与能源专业的首次合作表示欢迎，他表示:“我很高兴，雪佛龙能成为我们的第一个固定合作伙伴，并期待着与之合作评估石油设备设施退役对环境的影响。”

邹勤 摘译自 Offshore Energy

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Chevron enters environmentally-friendly decommissioning research pact

UK’s National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) and oil major Chevron have signed an agreement that would support research at the NDC through to 2023.

The University of Aberdeen said on Thursday that the partnership would fund a portfolio of research projects that would aim to better quantify the environmental impacts of decommissioning and provide guidance on the best options from an environmental perspective.

The projects will focus on techniques for monitoring fish stocks around installations and pipelines as man-made marine habitats, the bioavailability of potential decommissioning-related substances, and modeling the longevity and eventual fate of offshore infrastructure left in situation.

Welcoming the first partnership between the NDC and an energy major, NDC director Richard Neilson from the University of Aberdeen, said: “I am delighted that we have Chevron as our first anchor partner, and look forward to working in partnership to assess the environmental impacts of decommissioning.