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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Managing noise exposure is complex in terms of accurately assessing sound levels, identifying and ranking the dominant noise sources, and finding effective control solutions. -
Officials in southeastern New Mexico are struggling to monitor sewage problems from hundreds of camps used to house transient oilfield workers.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said his administration will spend $3 million on a pair of studies to explore the potential health effects of the natural gas industry.
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A survey focusing on oil and gas executives found that only 52% said their organizations have traveler health and safety programs in place.
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With at least 600,000 people killed or disabled each year, snakebites are a serious public health concern. For projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the oil and gas industry needs to consider the risks to workers and its responsibility to support communities against this silent killer.
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Residents in Broomfield, Colorado, now can submit concerns about medical issues that could be related to living near an oil and gas facility. The city had a form for filing complaints about oil and gas in Broomfield and has added a new box specifically for medical concerns.
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Colorado has released a long-awaited 380-page report on the health effects of oil and gas operations in the state. The science is complicated, though, as are the unfolding responses from state regulators and oil and gas companies.
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Colorado officials declared they will toughen their oversight of oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing sites following the release of a multiyear scientific study that found industry operations may expose residents to unhealthy levels of benzene and other chemicals.
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Despite a natural gas boom and health concerns over drilling from environmentalists, the state Department of Health has received just 160 complaints related to drilling over the last decade.
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Critics say an ethane expansion not only will prolong hydraulic fracturing but also could also trigger a public health disaster as political polarization over the climate surges under Trump.
