雷普索尔首次交付碳补偿液化天然气

据天然气加工伦敦报道，西班牙能源提供商雷普索尔公司3月12日表示，该公司首次使用碳补偿信贷来补偿客户将用于驱动船舶的液化天然气所产生的排放。

可做交易的补偿信贷旨在通过支持世界其他地方的植树造林和可再生能源生产基地等项目，平衡排放造成的全球变暖效应。

雷普索尔公司表示，在位于西班牙东南部的系统运营商Enagas拥有的一个终端，雷普索尔公司已向瑞典公司Furetank Rederi拥有的一艘150米长的化学品运输船供应了430立方米的液化天然气。

为了补偿船舶使用燃料时排放到大气中的二氧化碳，雷普索尔公司表示，它已在与自然气候解决方案相关的自愿碳市场上购买了碳排放信贷，这往往包括造林、土地管理和湿地保护。

然而，与该行业的其他一些运营商不同，雷普索尔公司不会补偿其燃料的生产和运输，而是更愿意致力于减少自身业务的排放。

其他采取不同方式的能源公司包括俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司(Gazprom)，该公司本周首次通过一家公司的补偿来覆盖向欧洲生产和运输液化天然气的费用。

雷普索尔公司发言人表示，该公司在此次交易中支付了补偿费用，并正在评估未来如何处理这些费用。

李峻 编译自 天然气加工

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Repsol makes first delivery of carbon-compensated LNG

Repsol for the first time has used carbon offset credits to compensate for emissions from LNG a customer will use to power a ship, the Spanish energy provider said.

Tradeable offset credits aim to balance the planet-warming effects of emissions by supporting projects such as forestation and renewable energy generation sites elsewhere in the world.

Repsol said it had supplied 430 cubic metres of LNG to a 150-metre long chemical tanker owned by Swedish firm Furetank Rederi at a terminal owned by system operator Enagas in southeastern Spain.

To compensate for the carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere as the ship uses the fuel, Repsol said it had bought credits on the voluntary carbon market related to natural climate solutions, which tend to include forestation, land management and wetland conservation.

However, unlike some other operators in the sector, Repsol will not offset its production and transport of the fuel, preferring to work on reducing emissions from its own operations.

Other energy companies taking different approaches include Russia’s Gazprom, which used offsets to cover the production and transport of LNG to Europe in a company first this week.

Repsol paid for the offsets in this transaction, and is evaluating how to handle the costs in the future, a spokesman said.