Environment
The justices ruled Friday that the company holding the oil and gas lease also lays claim to the produced water. The ruling comes as more companies are seeking to turn a profit on what has long been considered a vexing waste stream.
Shell became the first international company to operate producing fields offshore Brazil and the first to navigate the country’s complex and detailed decommissioning permitting process, which involved extensive environmental assessments, regulatory approvals, and coordinated stakeholder engagement.
This paper aims to describe the role of liquefied natural gas as a transitional energy source for automobile transportation in Nigeria.
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The environmental impact statement is a required step before another lease sale can be held in the Gulf of Mexico, a move welcomed by the oil and gas industry.
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Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten relics.
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The upstream oil and gas sector alone could cut as much as 4% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a report from McKinsey. But this will take worldwide cooperation among industry players and capital investors.
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This paper examines how data-science-driven work practices can result in substantial reductions in methane emissions compared with other leak-detection and -repair methods.
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The paper aims to address the challenges and opportunities in managing produced water and its contaminants in the petroleum industry.
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This paper describes the development of guidelines to determine the most suitable corrosion-resistant alloys for downhole injection equipment in wells for carbon capture and storage and carbon capture, use, and storage.
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A new type of porous material called a covalent organic framework quickly sucks up carbon dioxide from ambient air.
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Officials with the Interior Department want to make the protections for the Greater Sage Grouse even stronger with a plan that would eliminate loopholes that allowed development in areas considered crucial to the bird’s long-term survival.
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This paper reviews decommissioning and abandonment in Nigeria, looks at candidate identification strategies, breaks down the methods and best practices involved, and examines the requirements for openhole and cased-hole abandonment.
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The rule, part of the Inflation Reduction Act established by Congress, allows the Environmental Protection Agency to charge large emitters of methane if they surpass specific levels.