Environment
Experts and industry leaders gathered in The Woodlands, Texas, recently to sift through the challenges of carbon capture, utilization, and storage. The puzzle is coming together, but some critical pieces are still needed before the results look like the picture on the box.
This article from the SPE Sustainable Development Technical Section (SDTS) explores how the next phase of methane performance will be defined less by pledges and more by measurement, response, and verifiable results.
In a move tied to national security, a Trump-appointed committee voted to exempt oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act requirements, marking the first such exemption in 3 decades.
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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. -
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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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…
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to list the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act could impose restrictions on drilling in the Permian Basin.
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Acknowledging the necessity to better understand treatment needs, economic challenges, and public health and environmental risks of industry’s waste water, the Texas Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 601, establishing a Texas Produced Water Consortium.
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The list of potential bidders for Norway’s first tender for offshore wind farm licenses is long. More than two dozen companies and joint ventures from throughout Europe are likely to participate in the tender planned for later this year.
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Drilling at remote sites comes with challenges, not least of which is drilling-waste management. Drill cuttings traditionally are the focus of attention, and a solution is available to treat this waste stream at source. In many projects, however, slop waste and, in some cases, conductor drilling waste is also generated. This paper outlines how a single process using m…
