Recommendation 35

To date the NSTA has not published the names of those operators lagging behind in reducing their production emissions. This prevents investors, shareholders and other interested parties from being able to appraise the performance of individual companies against their net zero pledges. The NSTA has indicated to us that it would potentially be prepared to use its ‘soft power’ to influence operators by publishing details of the performance of individual operators or companies. We recommend that the North Sea Transition Authority publish an annual league table in its Emissions Monitoring Report detailing the performance on emissions reduction of individual operators and companies. The Government should signal its support for such an approach, which would encourage action by operators to reduce their upstream emissions.