North Sea Interactive: A decision-support tool to guide environmental monitoring by the oil and gas industry

北海互动符合所有NERC的石油和天然气催化剂计划标准。它是在与英国石油天然气公司密切协商后开发的，旨在为苏格兰政府的海洋规划互动管理工具提供信息，这本身就是海上工业的宝贵资源。北海互动翻译NERC环境科学从英国地质调查局（英国地质调查局，表面地质学）和国家海洋学中心（NOC，模拟水文学）到一个新的地理信息系统工具，结合了40年的工业档案底栖生物在北海底栖生物数据库（石油和天然气英国/赫瑞瓦特大学，HWU）。北海互动通过与英国石油天然气公司和苏格兰政府的一系列磋商和借调，从NERC的研究基地转移人员。这些借调使我们能够将北海互动开发为一种实用工具，成为未来开发和扩展到新勘探和生产领域的宝贵案例研究。北海互动将促进新的想法和联合行业项目（JIP）。其中包括对该项目的扩展，例如纳入额外的生物地球化学参数（例如pH值，与岩屑堆稳定性高度相关），以及在英国西部的大西洋边缘等新区域使用北海互动方法。北海互动依赖于其合作伙伴与石油行业之间的悠久历史和密切的工作关系。HWU自20世纪70年代初以来一直与海上工业合作。HWU团队拥有超过60年的石油工业项目经验，代表了汇编和评估石油和天然气工业底栖生物数据的独特集体经验。该大学与工业界有着牢固的工作关系，这不仅体现在其石油工程研究所（JIPs收入为每年450万英镑; JIPs持续长达12年），还体现在其石油工业相关的分拆公司（例如Epistemy，Hydrafact，Hydrason，Petroc Technologies，SeeByte）的成功。英国地质调查局作为石油工业的地球科学和区域地质信息的重要来源，具有无与伦比的地位。从与单个运营商的一次性合同到大型长期JIP，如1995-2006年的西部边疆协会（15家公司，270万英镑的行业资金）和1992-2010年的Rockall财团（14家公司，734万英镑的行业资金）。BGS在此类JIPs中的成功促进了与国际学术财团的伙伴关系，如EC STRATAGEM和COSTA计划，通过提供一个整合NERC和石油工业环境数据的单一工具，北海互动将帮助运营商实现未来油田开发、退役选择和退役后监测的最佳可行环境选择（BPEO）。其目的是确保随时获得高质量的NERC环境数据以及行业数据集，从而帮助公司履行其义务（例如，根据奥斯巴委员会对2010-14年联合评估监测方案和欧盟海洋战略框架指令的国家义务）。它为今后的联合执行计划提供了一个模式，以整合学术和工业数据，特别是在沿着大西洋边缘，那里在了解深水生态系统和对石油和天然气活动的脆弱性方面存在知识差距。通过创建我们认为将成为密集架海洋数据集之一，整合来自工业和学术界的生物，地质和水动力信息，北海互动将成为许多新想法和举措的催化剂。以及未来的增强（如地球化学数据层）和扩展（如大西洋边缘），这些包括与区域生境测绘（如MAREMAP），提供基础层的可再生能源行业和围绕环境监测和退役问题的潜在的联合执行计划筏接口。

North Sea Interactive meets all NERC's oil and gas catalyst programme criteria. It has been developed in close consultation with Oil & Gas UK and designed to feed into the Scottish Government's Marine Planning Interactive management tool, itself a valuable resource for the offshore industry. North Sea Interactive translates NERC environmental science from the British Geological Survey (BGS, surficial geology) and National Oceanography Centre (NOC, modelled hydrography) into a new Geographic Information System tool that incorporates the 40-year industry archive of benthic biology in the North Sea Benthos database (Oil & Gas UK/Heriot-Watt University, HWU). North Sea Interactive transfers people from NERC's research base through a series of consultations and secondments with Oil & Gas UK and the Scottish Government. These secondments allow us to develop North Sea Interactive as a practical tool, becoming a valuable Case Study for future development and extension to new exploration and production areas. North Sea Interactive will catalyse new ideas and Joint Industry Projects (JIPs). These include extensions to this project, such as incorporating additional biogeochemical parameters (e.g. pH, highly relevant to cuttings pile stability), through to using the North Sea Interactive approach in new areas such as the Atlantic Margins west of the UK.North Sea Interactive relies on the long history and close working relationships between its partners and the oil industry. HWU has worked with the offshore industry since the early 1970s. The HWU team has over 60 years combined experience of oil industry projects representing a unique collective experience of compiling and assessing benthic biological data for the oil and gas industry. The University has a strong working relationship with industry evident not only from its Institute of Petroleum Engineering (JIPs income £4.5m pa; JIPs lasting up to 12yrs), but also from the success of its oil industry-related spin-out companies (e.g. Epistemy, Hydrafact, Hydrason, Petroc Technologies, SeeByte). The BGS has an unrivalled position as a valued source of geoscience and regional geological information for the oil industry. Relationships vary from one-off contracts with individual operators to large, long-terms JIPs such as the 1995-2006 Western Frontiers Association (15 companies, £2.7m industry funding) and the 1992-2010 Rockall Consortium (14 companies, £7.34M industry funding). BGS success in such JIPs has catalysed partnerships with international academic consortia, such as the EC STRATAGEM and COSTA programmes.By providing a single tool that integrates NERC and oil industry environmental data, North Sea Interactive will assist operators in achieving best practicable environmental options (BPEO) for future oil field development, decommissioning options and post-decommissioning monitoring. It is designed to ensure ready access to high-quality NERC environmental data alongside industry datasets so helping companies meet their obligations (e.g. under the OSPAR Commission's national obligations to the 2010-14 Joint Assessment Monitoring Programme and the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive). It provides a model for future JIPs to integrate academic and industry data notably along the Atlantic Margins where there are knowledge gaps in understanding of deep-water ecosystems and vulnerabilities to oil and gas activities. By creating what we believe will become one of the densest shelf seas datasets integrating biological, geological and hydrodynamic information from industry and academia, North Sea Interactive will become a catalyst for many new ideas and initiatives. As well as future enhancements (e.g. biogeochemical data layers) and expansions (e.g. Atlantic Margin), these include interfacing with regional habitat mapping (e.g. MAREMAP), providing base layers to the renewables industry and raft of potential JIPs around environmental monitoring and decommissioning issues.