HSE & Sustainability
While Uzbekistan has seen a significant drop in flaring, methane leaks from deteriorating infrastructure continue to reveal themselves to satellites in space.
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.
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Carbon credits, carbon taxes, and emissions trading systems are familiar terms in discussions about global warming, the Paris Agreement, and net-zero emissions goals. The EU is moving to act on an addition to the glossary of climate policy: carbon tariff. -
The American National Standards Institute accredited three of the American Petroleum Institute’s inspector certifications for pressure vessels, piping, and aboveground storage tanks.
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The Swedish operator is using a $35-million tree-planting initiative to offset the estimated 98,000 BOED it produces from the Edvard Grieg field about 111 miles offshore Stavanger.
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Saudi Aramco is accelerating the adoption and scaleup of disruptive and multipurpose robotic technologies to deliver safer, cost-effective, and efficient inspection capabilities, emergency response, aerial mapping, project monitoring, security surveillance, and environmental monitoring.
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A roadmap for the oil and gas sector created by IPIECA and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development presents more than 90 transformational actions that are designed to accelerate the realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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The Biden administration has directed the US Treasury Department and USAID to design strategies and criteria aimed at shifting bank lending away from fossil fuel projects in the developing world.
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The operator's aggressive decarbonization effort has put it on the fast track to produce nearly a third of its oil and gas from the Norwegian Continental Shelf using electricity generated by onshore hydroelectric plants.
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ExxonMobil launched its Malaria Initiative in 2000. Now, more than 20 years later, three experts supported by the company give their perspectives on what has been learned about the disease and highlight some accomplishments in research and innovation.
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The system presented in this paper uses a fiber-optic cable and cameras to provide intruder detection and identification. It transmits the signals wirelessly through the remote telemetry units at the wellhead.
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The planned LNG export facility will host a large carbon capture and storage project to enable the permanent geologic storage of more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
