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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State regulators have failed to prevent Pennsylvania’s natural gas drilling industry from sickening people and poisoning air and water, a grand jury concluded in a report issued after a 2-year investigation. -
Indonesia is home to numerous oil and gas fields, and upstream oil and gas activities are integral to the country's economic growth. Here are the key regulatory changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic affecting Indonesia's oil and gas sector.
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The oil and gas company is using a new online platform to track its out-of-state workers’ health. Now, it’s offering the code for the program to other organizations for free.
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Living near active oil and gas wells may put pregnant people at higher risk of having low-birth-weight babies, especially in rural areas, finds a new study of birth outcomes in California.
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A recently completed health impact assessment in New Mexico found periodic spikes of formaldehyde and other pollutants associated with oil and gas development recorded at unsafe levels for short periods of time near homes.
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In a survey of 448 workers across the oil and gas industry, UH Energy asked key questions about returning to work during the global pandemic.
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Oil and Gas UK confirmed it is supporting the roll-out of a special protective face covering designed for workers traveling by helicopter to offshore installations in the UK continental shelf.
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University of Houston Energy asked 408 industry workers to gauge their companies’ response to the global pandemic and economic downturn.
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An expert panel moderated by Johana Dunlop, SPE technical director for HSE and sustainability, covers a wide range of issues facing the double crisis of COVID-19 and historically low crude prices.
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Industry representative body Oil and Gas UK and safety organization Step Change in Safety have coproduced a series of films to address the concerns of thousands of workers traveling offshore during the coronavirus pandemic.
