A Review of Climate Change Impacts to Oil Sector Critical Services and Suggested Recommendations for Industry Uptake

Katopodis, Theodoros; Sfetsos, Athanasios

doi:10.3390/infrastructures4040074

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“…As climate change intensifies, fossil fuel production facilities face increasing risks, including sea level rise and extreme weather (Katopodis & Sfetsos, 2019). In this context, countries increasingly mention fossil fuel production in their NDCs in the context of adaptation.…”

Section: Mitigation and Adaptation Measures For The Fossil Fuelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production

Jones¹,

Cabré²,

Piggot³

et al. 2021

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The need for a managed transition away from fossil fuel production raises the question of whether and how countries are addressing this need in their national communications to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A previous 2019 analysis of the first round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and long-term, low-emissions development strategies (LT-LEDS) found that few countries discussed how they would address fossil fuel production as part of their climate mitigation activities. Here, we examine new and updated NDCs and LT-LEDS, finding a growing number of NDCs and LT-LEDS that address fossil fuel production as part of mitigation. For the first time, several countries incorporate policies and/ or pathways for a managed decline of fossil fuel production. In contrast, many others foresee continued or expanded fossil fuel production, with no mention of efforts to prepare for a transition. Opportunities remain for countries to make better use of NDCs and LT-LEDS to align fossil fuel production with the Paris Agreement, including by more comprehensively reflecting on the equity implications of their plans, as well as addressing how countries plan to diversify their economies, ensure a just transition for workers, and cooperate internationally on a managed wind-down of fossil fuel supply. As COP26 approaches, this window of opportunity is still open, but it is rapidly closing.

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Section: Mitigation and Adaptation Measures For The Fossil Fuelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production

Jones¹,

Cabré²,

Piggot³

et al. 2021

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“…Petrochemical industry -Extreme weather events including extreme temperatures, storm surges, flooding, strong winds and extreme precipitation from tropical cyclones, dust and sandstorms pose a critical challenge to the reliability and durability of the oil supply chain from extraction, refining and processing, to export; in particular as much of the refinery infrastructure is located in low-lying coastal areas 91,109 . Rising temperatures also impact on processes such as liquefaction and refining which are very temperature-dependent, and increasing aridity in the region will impact on access to water resources for refinery processes 110 .…”

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COP26 Visions for a Net Zero Future – Regional Profile for the Arabian Peninsula

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Molini

Santamarina

et al. 2021

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This regional profile for the Arabian Peninsula was developed in the context of the BEIS COP26 Visions for a Net Zero Future project. It covers the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and has been developed with the input from in- country academic experts Prof. Annalisa Molini and Mr Luiz Friedrich (Khalifa University, UAE) and Prof. Juan Carlos Santamarina (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA). It sets out a synthesis of the available evidence base on regional challenges and opportunities for mitigation, adaptation, and resilience measures for both KSA and UAE and the wider Arabian Peninsula associated with climate change and a global transition to an inclusive, desirable, and resilient net-zero future.

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“…In this century, one set of risks that will become increasingly important will be the threat of global heating and the vulnerabilities to the energy system and energy consumers to these threats [7]. This is in large part because most of today's energy systems were not designed to be resilient to the risks of global heating, such as extreme weather events, sea-level rise, droughts, and forest fires [8][9][10]; for example, in countries that rely on reliable supplies of water for power generation, such as cooling water in thermal power stations or predictable weather patterns for hydroelectricity [11].…”

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The Risks of Global Heating to Energy Systems and Energy Security

Hughes

Jong

2021

Sustainability

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As recent events have shown, global heating is increasing the risk to many sectors of society, from agriculture to the built environment, to transportation. The energy security of most energy systems, regardless of their size, is also at risk from the effects of global heating: The reliable supply of power to end users can be threatened by extreme weather events affecting transformers and transmission and distribution networks. It can also be a threat to generators that are vulnerable to unpredictable supplies of water, such as thermal or hydroelectric generation facilities. In this paper, we use an energy security methodology to examine some of the possible climate risks to the supply of power from hydroelectricity produced by one of western Canada’s electricity suppliers. The work is of particular interest because it shows how the increasing number of heatwaves that are affecting parts of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest could affect electricity supply in some western Canadian provinces and northern U.S. states.

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A Review of Climate Change Impacts to Oil Sector Critical Services and Suggested Recommendations for Industry Uptake

Cited by 25 publications

References 58 publications

Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production

Tapping the potential of NDCs and LT-LEDS to address fossil fuel production

COP26 Visions for a Net Zero Future – Regional Profile for the Arabian Peninsula

The Risks of Global Heating to Energy Systems and Energy Security

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