@article { , title = {Who wants North Sea CCS, and why? Assessing differences in opinion between oil and gas industry respondents and wider energy and environmental stakeholders.}, abstract = {Although Scotland and the wider UK is making good progress with research and development towards deployment of offshore carbon capture and storage, there is increasing divergence in opinion on the necessity of CCS for meeting climate change targets. Oil and gas operators appear optimistic about the technical feasibility of CCS; whereas civil society and NGOs are increasingly vocal in their scepticism towards the necessity of CCS in a net-zero society. Given that operators’ expertise may be required to support offshore CO2 storage given their subsea experience, and that civil society is important in shaping government and public opinion, this divergence may be a challenge to offshore CCS deployment in the UK and elsewhere. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the grounds on which oil and gas operators’ views on CCS differ from a wider range of stakeholders, through a survey and in-depth interviews. Our results show that people with more knowledge of CCS are more likely to support its deployment, and that strong belief in anthropogenic climate change is lower – albeit rising – among oil and gas respondents. Our results also show concern that the net-zero transition may have negative effects for carbon-intensive regions, and that storage expertise is the UK’s strongest skill set for CCS deployment. We suggest that across a range of stakeholders, the value of CCS is thus most likely to lie in specific applications (e.g. hydrogen) and/or very specific localities (e.g. places with existing subsurface knowledge and skills), rather than widespread deployment as a mitigation technology.}, doi = {10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103288}, eissn = {1878-0148}, issn = {1750-5836}, journal = {International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control}, note = {INFO COMPLETE (Now published, checked and updated 5/3/2021 LM; Info of acceptance from contact 17/2/2021 LM) PERMISSION GRANTED (version = AAM; embargo = 12 months; licence = BY-NC-ND; SHERPA = https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/12568 18/2/2021 LM) DOCUMENT READY (AAM rec'd from contact 17/2/2021 LM) ADDITIONAL INFO - Contact: Abhishek Agarwal (Possible non-compliance with funder - SHERPA JULIET = https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/722 permits 12 month embargo if no funds to pay but must use BY-NC licence, however Elseviers default licence is BY-NC-ND 18/2/2021 LM) (If receive request for article before 19th April 2021 then use personalized Share Link https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cfdd6E2M2uHpI which was forwarded by contact 4/3/2021 LM)}, publicationstatus = {Published}, publisher = {Elsevier}, url = {https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1206325}, volume = {106}, keyword = {Carbon capture and storage, Just transition, North Sea, Offshore CCS, Oil and gas}, year = {2021}, author = {Gonzalez, Adrian and Mabon, Leslie and Agarwal, Abhishek} }