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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S10292/01
Title:	A Methodology for Measuring Sectoral Sustainable Development (MSECSD) and its application to the UK oil and gas sector
Principal Investigator:	Skea, Professor J
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Project Partners:	UK Offshore Operators Association
Department:	Policy Studies
Organisation:	Policy Studies Institute
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	01 April 2003	Ends:	31 March 2005	Value (£):	128,115
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Manufact. Enterprise Ops& Mgmt
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Chemicals
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The research will develop a methodology for analysing sectoral sustainable development, and illustrate this through four detailed applications to important issues in the oil and gas sectors: offshore energy use, produced water, decommissioning and employment. The research will first collect corporate data about material and energy flows. Using mass and energy balance techniques, this data will be analysed to identify data gaps, which further corporate research will seek to fill, and to relate the flows both to the environmental impacts of the sector and to concepts of environmental sustainability. The research will then use techniques of environmental accounting to match the flows of materials and energy through the sector to financial flows, showing in particular the economic costs associated with the energy and materials flows. This will identify those areas of the sectors activities which are associated with both the largest environmental impacts and the largest economic costs, which will allow strategies to be suggested for cost effective environmental improvements. In parallel with the material and energy flow analyses, research will analyse the present and likely future skill and employment needs of the sector and explore, through a process of stakeholder mapping, how the sector is currently addressing this issue, with, again, the financial commitments involved. This will shed light on how the sector, and society more widely, could prepare for the transition to lower production in the oil and gas sector that lies ahead.
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