Environment
DNV’s carbon capture and storage outlook forecasts a massive shortfall in the projects necessary to help the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
Buoy-based camera footage, analyzed by artificial intelligence, can help reduce the risk of birds colliding with offshore wind farm turbines.
The Dutch marine contractor says it plans to outfit its construction vessels with small modular reactors over 5 years.
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A 3-year study of air quality, soils, groundwater, and waterways found few to no effects as a result of hydraulic fracturing operations in Surat Basin coal seam formations. -
The US Supreme Court handed BP unit Atlantic Richfield a victory, making it harder for Montana landowners to seek a more-extensive cleanup of a hazardous waste site than the federal government had ordered.
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The Louisiana agency overseeing oil and gas drilling has seen a 50% increase in orphaned wells the state must pay to plug because they’ve been abandoned by their operators, according to a new audit by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office.
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The Oklahoma Corporation Commission approved an emergency order that allows oil producers to stop or reduce production without losing their leases for nonproduction.
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Enough gas to supply 7 million homes is leaking into the atmosphere above oil fields in Texas and New Mexico, the largest plume of climate-change-driving methane pollution ever recorded over a US oil field, a new study from Harvard University and Environmental Defense Fund shows.
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Earth Day this year, 22 April, marked 50 years of raising global awareness for the challenges faced by the planet and the life it supports. IPIECA, the oil and gas industry association for advancing environmental and social performance, has been addressing climate issues for more than 30 years.
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The court ruling comes less than a month after TC Energy announced plans to proceed with construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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On 20 April 2010, a blowout on the Deepwater Horizon, drilling at the Macondo prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, killed 11 crew and caused a major oil spill. The accident and spill forever changed the industry.
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A US judge canceled a key permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline that is expected to stretch from Canada to Nebraska, another setback for the disputed project that got under way only recently following years of delays.
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A preliminary estimate from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that levels of atmospheric methane, a potent heat-trapping gas, have hit an all-time high.
