HSE & Sustainability
The department announced it plans to combine the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement into the Marine Minerals Administration.
While some idle wells may be brought back into production, many will be plugged and abandoned. This paper considers repurposing certain idle oil and gas wells by using their empty steel casing for the disposal of nuclear waste.
This article from the SPE Methane Technical Section looks at how, as methane regulation becomes more consequential in global oil and gas trade, operators increasingly need emissions data that can withstand commercial scrutiny, regulatory review, and independent verification.
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Source Energie has been working to identify both medium- and long-term sites for development of floating offshore wind and now has come together with ERM Dolphyn to develop floating wind sites in the Celtic Sea that produce green hydrogen rather than electricity. -
Saudi officials accused Yemen’s Houthi rebels of launching the attack, which cast a shadow over a Formula One car race aimed at international spectators.
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This paper presents the development and test of a method to predict upstream events that could lead to flaring, applying an integrated framework using machine-learning and big-data analytics.
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Oxy aims to combine crude oil with environmental attributes generated from the sequestration of atmospheric CO2 captured with its planned direct-air-capture plant and sequestered in its enhanced-oil-recovery reservoirs in the Permian Basin.
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The DOI guidance explains how states can apply for the first $775 million in grant funding available this year under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create jobs cleaning up polluted and unsafe orphaned oil and gas wellsites across the country.
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The company uses unmanned aerial vehicles to measure methane offshore.
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With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulting in lower supplies to oil markets ahead of peak demand season, the International Energy Agency has released a plan that it says can cut global oil demand by 2.7 million BOPD, easing strains and price pain.
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The Norwegian platform was taken off line as a precaution after an undersea earthquake shook the area.
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Research conducted by Rystad Energy indicates that spending on carbon capture and storage will quadruple in the next 3 years.
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New lease agreements have secured more than 700 million metric tons of potential CO2 sequestration capacity.
