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NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
卷 7, 期 8, 页码 551-556出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3347
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Ford Motor Company
Record-breaking temperatures1 have induced governments to implement targets for reducing future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions(2,3). Use of oil products contributes similar to 35% of global GHG emissions(4), and the oil industry itself consumes 3-4% of global primary energy. Because oil resources are becoming increasingly heterogeneous, requiring different extraction and processing methods, GHG studies should evaluate oil sources using detailed project-specific data(5). Unfortunately, prior oil-sector GHG analysis has largely neglected the fact that the energy intensity of producing oil can change significantly over the life of a particular oil project. Here we use decades-long time-series data from twenty-five globally significant oil fields (>1 billion barrels ultimate recovery) to model GHG emissions from oil production as a function of time. We find that volumetric oil production declines with depletion, but this depletion is accompanied by significant growth-in some cases over tenfold-in per-MJ GHG emissions. Depletion requires increased energy expenditures in drilling, oil recovery, and oil processing. Using probabilistic simulation, we derive a relationship for estimating GHG increases over time, showing an expected doubling in average emissions over 25 years. These trends have implications for long-term emissions and climate modelling, as well as for climate policy.
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