BEIS has updated the guidelines for the UK Risk-Based Approach (UK RBA) Programme for the management of water discharges from offshore installations and has also created a technical report on the updated dilution factors for the UK RBA.
The relevant information can be found under the heading ‘OSPAR – Risk Based Approach For The Management of Produced Water’ on the gov.uk web page ‘Oil and gas: environmental policy’. The documents can be found here:
– UK Risk Based Approach Programme (PDF)
– Technical Note – Update to RBS Dilution Factors (PDF)
Source: BEIS.