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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Storing captured carbon requires a receptacle, and existing reservoirs are just the thing. But which ones? -
Oil producers encountering pockets of methane typically use flare stacks to burn off the vented gas. However, winds blowing across conventional open flame burners often result in 40% or more of the methane escaping into the air.
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UK offshore oil and gas producers are moving closer to the region's goal of achieving zero routine flaring by 2030.
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During a fireside chat on SPE Live, Iman Hill, the executive director of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, discussed market recovery, the energy transition, diversity in the oil and gas industry, and the future of the industry.
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Coal states are questioning whether the Clean Air Act gave the EPA the power to create policy.
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A recent study led by environmental engineers at Rice University quantifies the effect of black carbon particles on health.
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A lawsuit filed in the Bay Area represents a looming issue for thousands of idled oil and gas wells.
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The two companies will work to retrofit nonproducing wells for geothermal production and scale GreenFire Energy’s closed-loop advanced geothermal systems.
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How is it possible that, in the 30 years since the international oil and gas industry declared a commitment to eradicate the unthinkable, catastrophic events continued to occur—especially in light of so much evidence being on hand asserting overall HSE performance improvements? This paper addresses this clear conundrum and submits that there are essentially three prin…
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Skyrocketing demand for the commodity has created a lithium deficit that could slow the pace of the energy transition. Industry is scrambling to find new sources by opening new mines or devising new technologies to extract lithium from brines, including brines found in produced water from oil and gas operations.
