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Air emissions, by pollutant: NMHC
This stacked bar chart shows the NMHC emissions to air of each business segment. NMHC stands for Non-Methane Hydrocarbons.

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Air emissions, by pollutant: NMHC
	Units	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Emissions to Air - Group total (9)	Tonnes	1,354,596	1,211,171	1,222,918	1,036,207	886,462	844,431	903,268	763,675
Total Emissions to Air - E&P (9)	Tonnes	842,990	710,617	736,682	603,381	488,363	471,130	480,930	429,924
NMHC - E&P	Tonnes	190,629	169,986	186,866	149,860	116,332	106,665	104,718	100,043
Total Emissions to Air - R&M (2,9)	Tonnes	331,099	319,816	275,718	243,127	233,223	174,185	170,076	128,562
NMHC - R&M	Tonnes	121,664	139,730	117,952	125,247	104,492	85,539	101,499	66,285
Total Emissions to Air - Chemicals (7,9)	Tonnes	42,234	36,047	36,776	35,065	34,568	33,722	40,274
NMHC - Chemicals (7)	Tonnes	21,801	20,017	20,767	18,198	18,826	15,552	15,735
Total Emissions to Air - GRST and Other (3,9)	Tonnes	138,273	144,691	173,742	154,634	130,308	165,394	211,987	205,189
NMHC - GRST and Other	Tonnes	31,204	38,226	39,458	28,814	29,135	37,322	75,886	59,092

(2) From 2003, air emissions for marketing have excluded SO2 and NOx
(3) 'Other' businesses includes aluminum and BP corporate functions/offices. In 2005 Wingles, SECCO, PEMSB and Pasadena which were previously part of Chemicals were included in 'Other' businesses. From 2006 SECCO and PEMSB are included with Refinery and Marketing.
(7) Chemicals business in 2005 is the Innovene business sold as Ineos
(9) Previous reports included CO, particulates and other inorganics for air emissions. These pollutants have been excluded from all air emission totals reported here.

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