Emission Factor

Offshore well - oil/gas (market for offshore well - oil/gas)

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Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is an immobile infrastructure representing the drilling of an offshore well for oil or/and gas exploration extraction. The infrastructure represents all the types of offshore drilling. The rotary drilling method is predominantly used in wells for finding and producing oil/natural gas. The offshore drilling activity requires space for both supply and disposal. A temporary area of about 0.2 ha is required for the storage of the roughing cement and other supplies (chemicals fuels) for a well of about 3 400 m depth. The drilling time is about 2 months. The stress on the benthos (animal and plant life of the seabed) as a disposal site is assumed for the duration of one year. Thus per meter drilled about 260 m2 of seabed is severely impacted. The process includes all energy uses materials and emissions for drilling of an offshore bore hole and finishing of the well. No differences depending on depth of sea and type of geological formation are taken into account. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameOffshore well - oil/gas (market for offshore well - oil/gas)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.10
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2023
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/m
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_offshore_well_oil_gas_market_for_offshore_well_oil_gas
UUID
8eb4c61d-2d65-48fa-8946-ca66dba47f79
Code Snippet
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