Track: Sustainability

Abstract

Ecosystem services sustain life and biodiversity, in addition to making resources available to humans, and it is common for ecosystems to develop into structures created by man over time. This is the case of oil platforms, especially fixed ones, which according to Brazilian legislation, must be decommissioned at the end of the viability of oil production, but which may not be thinking about the loss of biodiversity. This work proposes a solution that maintains ecosystem services and still has financial potential to generate clean and renewable energy from the winds. For this, a proposal is built based on climatological, geographic, and wind power generation market data that seeks to demonstrate the financial viability of the specific case of the Robalo 1 Platform, which is located about 50 kilometers from other platforms to be decommissioned, in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil. It was found that when minimally valuing ecosystem services such as artificial reefs and integrating wind generation for the non-decommissioning of the fixed platform substructure, from the point of view of net present value, the project proves to be viable.