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

北海互动符合NERC的所有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支持，该工具本身就是离岸行业的宝贵资源。北海互动将英国地质调查局(BGS)和国家海洋学中心(NOC，模拟水文学)的NERC环境科学转化为新的地理信息系统工具，将北海底栖生物数据库(英国石油和天然气公司/赫里奥特-瓦特大学，HWU)中40年的底栖生物行业档案纳入其中。北海互动通过与英国石油天然气公司和苏格兰政府进行一系列咨询和借调，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个实用工具，成为未来开发和扩展到新的勘探和生产领域的有价值的案例研究。北海互动将催生新的想法和联合行业项目(JIP)，从促进项目的延伸，包括重要的额外生物地球化学参数(例如，与岩屑桩稳定性高度相关的PH值)，到在英国西部大西洋边缘等新地区使用北海互动方法。自20世纪70年代初以来，Hwu一直与离岸行业合作。HWU团队拥有60多年石油行业项目的综合经验，代表了为石油和天然气行业汇编和评估海底生物数据的独特集体经验。该大学与石油行业有着牢固的工作关系，这不仅从其石油工程研究所(JIP收入450万GB pa；JIP可持续12年)中可见一斑，也从其与石油行业相关的衍生公司(如Eistemy、Hydraact、Hydrason、Petroc Technologies、SeeByte)的成功中可见一斑。英国地质勘探局作为石油行业重要的地学和区域地质信息来源，拥有无与伦比的地位。合作关系从与个别运营商的一次性合同到大型、长期的JIP，例如1995-2006年的西部前沿协会(15家公司，行业资金270万英镑)和1992-2010年的Rockall财团(14家公司，734万英镑的行业资金)。北海互动公司在此类JIP项目上的成功促进了与国际学术财团的伙伴关系，如EC战略和COSTA计划。通过提供集成NERC和石油行业环境数据的单一工具，北海互动将帮助运营商为未来的油田开发、退役选择和退役后监测获得最佳可行的环境选择(BPEO)。它旨在确保随时获得高质量的NERC环境数据以及行业数据集，以帮助公司履行其义务(例如，根据奥斯巴委员会对2010-14年联合评估监测计划和欧盟海洋战略框架指令的国家义务)。它为未来的联合调查组提供了一个整合学术和行业数据的模式，特别是在大西洋边缘，那里在了解深水生态系统和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最密集的陆架海洋数据集之一，整合了来自工业界和学术界的生物、地质和水动力学信息，我们相信北海互动将成为许多新想法和倡议的催化剂。除了未来的增强(例如生物地球化学数据层)和扩展(例如大西洋边缘)，这些包括与区域栖息地地图(例如MAREMAP)对接，为可再生能源行业和大量潜在的JIP提供基础层，尤其是围绕环境监测和退役

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), from extensions that catalyst projects which include important 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, we believe 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 notably around environmental monitoring and decommissionin