Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 of 21 June 2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed) (c. 601)

ANNEX IV U.K. Activity-specific monitoring methodologies related to installations (Article 20(2))

22. Determination of greenhouse gas emissions from the transport of CO₂ by pipelines for geological storage in a storage site permitted under Directive 2009/31/EC U.K.

B. Quantification methodologies for CO₂ U.K.

B.2. Method B U.K.

B.2.1. Fugitive emissions from the transport network U.K.

The operator shall consider fugitive emissions from any of the following types of equipment:

(a)

seals;

(b)

measurement devices;

(c)

valves;

(d)

intermediate compressor stations;

(e)

intermediate storage facilities.

The operator shall determine average emission factors EF (expressed in g CO₂/unit time) per piece of equipment per occurrence where fugitive emissions can be anticipated at the beginning of operation, and by the end of the first reporting year in which the transport network is in operation at the latest. The operator shall review those factors at least every 5 years in the light of the best available techniques and knowledge.

The operator shall calculate fugitive emissions by multiplying the number of pieces of equipment in each category by the emission factor and adding up the results for the single categories as shown in the following equation:

The number of occurrences shall be the number of pieces of the given equipment per category, multiplied by the number of time units per year.