Environment
The storage permits, the first of their kind, allow the Stratos facility to move forward with plans to capture and store up to 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
This article describes a technology combining a compression unit with a flexible line to offer a flaring alternative for transferring hydrocarbons.
This paper describes a deep-learning image-processing model that uses videos captured by a specialized optical gas-imaging camera to detect natural gas leaks.
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Signed into law last month, the Texas Produced Water Consortium will be hosted by Texas Tech and bring together stakeholders, key experts, and industry to address produced water challenges. -
The swirling, sea-surface fire near the Ku-C platform was extinguished after several hours.
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It is estimated there may be a few hundred thousand abandoned wells in Pennsylvania—some located in the woods, along riverbanks, in people's yards, and even inside their homes.
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The international petroleum industry has been in the spotlight after a gas leak sparked the underwater “eye of fire” boiling to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico and a large blast at a Caspian Sea oil and gas field.
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Ranchers and regulators are contending with uncontrolled leaks from thousands of abandoned oil and gas sites that could render some land “functionally uninhabitable.”
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The Environmental Protection Agency has underestimated methane emissions caused by oil and gas production by as much as 76%, according to research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
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Alumina Energy, Ionada, Parasanti, and SurgePower Materials will join the industrial scaling program at Halliburton Labs in Houston.
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Congressional Democrats have approved a measure reinstating rules aimed at limiting climate-warming greenhouse-gas emissions from oil and gas drilling.
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The US producer is aiming for net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions related to both Scope 1 and Scope 2 categories over the next 3 decades.
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Tropical storms severely affect oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, especially during the storm season from June to December. Offshore well managers often need to shut down operations and evacuate the facility because of storm alerts. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of storms on production by quantifying metrics such as downtime days and…
