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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The idea of a root cause was developed in the early 1900s to troubleshoot simple mechanical systems. Unfortunately, the same logic does not work very well to explain human and organizational behavior. -
It seems obvious that to manage the reduction of methane emissions an operator needs to measure the emissions, report them accurately, and then take action to mitigate them. But what might seem obvious gets tricky: Just what matters, and how can an operator efficiently and accurately measure those factors?
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The companies will leverage each other’s experience and assets to offer full-cycle water-handling services in West Texas.
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ESG accounting is a mess. Competing initiatives mean there’s no uniform set of standards for measuring a company’s progress on sustainability. The good news is that a new initiative, the International Sustainability Standards Board, promises to do for sustainability reporting what the International Accounting Standards Board does for financial reporting—develop standa…
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The new project will use EnLink’s existing pipeline infrastructure and Talos’ newly acquired 26,000-acre sequestration area.
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The company believes its booking represents the industry's first to be made under SPE's CO2 Storage Resource Management System.
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For the foreseeable future, going beyond the barrel will really mean maximizing returns from the barrel, including the identification and harnessing of potential gains from capital planning, asset management, and operations.
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The new guidance provides oil and gas companies, governments, and regulators with a practical framework to end flaring and use the gas as an energy resource.
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Elderly people living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development are at higher risk of early death compared with elderly people who don’t live near such operations, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Denbury gains exclusive rights to develop the site on 75,000 acres near Mobile, Alabama.
