Health
Fawaz Bitar, BP's senior vice president for HSE and carbon, spoke at a recent health, safety, and environment conference in Aberdeen about the importance of health in the industry. Here is a transcript of his speech.
The report presents data from 35 participating member companies.
New Mexico is the second-largest oil producer in the US behind Texas. Drawing immense wealth from the Permian Basin, the state relies on a workforce—often Latino men—who are subjected to harrowing conditions that lead to death, injury, disease, and terrible tolls on mental health and family life.
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The mostly low-income, Latino residents of Arvin have joined with other communities to demand setbacks for wells. -
Shell’s health, safety, and environment team in Argentina, with support from Tenaris, created a new safety protocol during the down period that allowed the company to be the first operator to resume operations in May.
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Experts say that more than a decade of research has made it clear that current setback distances, in states where they exist, are inadequate to protect public health. Now, political pressure to push oil and gas wells about half a mile from homes and other buildings is peaking across the country.
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Working from home has become the new normal, but the oil and gas industry is looking at safety measures and innovations in preparation for bringing back its remote workforce.
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In 2013, ExxonMobil PNG facilitated a public/private partnership to improve healthcare education at the University of Papua New Guinea and clinical management in child health at Port Moresby General Hospital and other facilities.
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International SOS has led medical services operations on offshore installations globally and has managed clinical cases in which patients presented with signs and symptoms of known infectious illnesses.
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Women living near oil and gas production sites where natural gas is flared may be at a higher risk of giving birth preterm, a team of California researchers reported.
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The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a COVID-19 control and prevention guidance for oil and gas industry workers and employers. The guidance supplements OSHA’s interim guidance for the general workforce.
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This study fosters proactive occupational health management by promoting employee health and preventing or reducing fatigue. It thus plays a vital role in the prevention of sickness absenteeism and illnesses associated with chronic fatigue.
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The two companies have teamed up to provide COVID-19 testing for oil and gas companies that want to test their employees at headquarters and remote rig locations across the country.
