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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This paper presents a field trial that compares multiple methane detection and quantification methods and compares the measurements with engineering estimates of emissions. -
The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers has released a new pandemic-management guidance, documenting lessons learned from the past year.
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SponsoredWhite Paper—The Ultimate Guide to e-Permit to Work: The Top Three Benefits of Moving Away From PaperMoving to an electronic permitting process can ensure proper and timely authorizations for work between office and field.
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The organization has published new procedures designed to provide the required safety level in transporting CO2 by pipelines and strengthen the development of carbon capture and storage projects.
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The Japanese contractor received word in early April it would be temporarily banned from new competitive bidding.
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Occidental Petroleum has split from some of its larger rivals by rejecting a potential US carbon tax, saying that it prefers the existing system of tax credits.
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In a test of the future of the hydrogen business, Baker Hughes is one of three companies starting a fund whose goal is to raise €1 billion to invest in a clean hydrogen infrastructure.
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The company says its HoverGuard flies on commercial drones and is designed to detect and quantify greenhouse-gas emissions along transmission pipelines.
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The court's decision marks the endpoint for the primary legal challenges mounted by Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Alberta, which had argued that the provinces should have the power to individually regulate greenhouse-gas emissions within their borders and to adopt their own strategies for meeting the challenges posed by climate change.
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The growth in renewable energy is spurring battery-storage projects, which are fueling a “gold rush to metals.”
