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

北海互动公司符合NERC所有的油气催化剂项目标准。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，该工具本身就是海上工业的宝贵资源。North Sea Interactive将英国地质调查局（BGS，表层地质学）和国家海洋学中心（NOC，模拟水文）的NERC环境科学转化为一个新的地理信息系统工具，该工具整合了北海底栖生物数据库（英国石油天然气公司/赫瑞瓦特大学，HWU）中40年的底栖生物行业档案。北海互动公司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的研究基地调派人员。这些借调使我们能够将North Sea Interactive开发为一种实用工具，成为未来开发和扩展新勘探和生产区域的有价值的案例研究。北海互动将催化新的想法和联合工业项目（jip）。这些措施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，与岩屑堆的稳定性高度相关），以及在英国西部大西洋边缘等新地区使用北海互动方法。北海互动依赖于其合作伙伴和石油行业之间的悠久历史和密切的工作关系。自20世纪70年代初以来，HWU一直与海上工业合作。HWU团队拥有超过60年的石油行业项目综合经验，代表了为石油和天然气行业编制和评估底栖生物数据的独特集体经验。该大学与行业有着紧密的合作关系，这不仅体现在其石油工程研究所（JIPs每年收入450万英镑，JIPs持续长达12年），还体现在其石油行业相关的分拆公司（例如Epistemy， Hydrafact, Hydrason, Petroc Technologies, SeeByte）的成功。英国地质勘探局作为石油工业地球科学和区域地质信息的重要来源，具有无可比拟的地位。合作关系各不相同，从单个运营商的一次性合同到大型、长期的JIPs，如1995-2006年西部边疆协会（15家公司，270万英镑的行业资金）和1992-2010年Rockall联盟（14家公司，734万英镑的行业资金）。英国地质调查局在此类JIPs中的成功促进了与国际学术联盟的伙伴关系，例如欧共体战略和科斯塔项目。通过提供整合NERC和石油行业环境数据的单一工具，North Sea Interactive将帮助作业者在未来的油田开发、退役方案和退役后监测中实现最佳可行的环境选择（BPEO）。它旨在确保随时可以访问高质量的NERC环境数据和行业数据集，从而帮助公司履行其义务（例如，根据OSPAR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JIPs提供了一个模型，以整合学术和行业数据，特别是在大西洋边缘地区，在了解深水生态系统和油气活动脆弱性方面存在知识空白。通过创建我们相信将成为最密集的陆架海洋数据集之一，整合来自工业界和学术界的生物，地质和流体动力学信息，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（如生物地球化学数据层）和扩展（如大西洋边缘），这些包括与区域栖息地测绘（如MAREMAP）接口，为可再生能源行业提供基础层，以及围绕环境监测和退役问题的大量潜在JIPs。

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.