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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The Texas oil and gas company will trim its carbon footprint in the coming years by building on a low-carbon investment that already totals more than $10 billion. -
Texas’s main oil regulator has been prohibited from waiving environmental rules and fees, measures adopted to help drillers cope with the pandemic-driven slump in crude prices.
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The country has announced that it plans to phase out all oil extraction by 2050.
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The Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota has now captured 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, a milestone in the synthetic natural gas production facilities’ 20-year effort to lower the impacts of energy production.
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The storage of CO2 under the seabed may add millions of tons per year to global carbon-capture totals. The finance and investment sectors are recognizing the value these projects may bring to portfolios aligned with achieving climate-change goals
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President-elect Biden and his administration likely will make significant changes to environmental, health, and safety rules and policies that will roll back Trump administration environmental actions and increase civil and criminal enforcement of environmental laws.
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Petrobras is pledging a 25% cut in carbon emissions by 2030, but that hasn’t stopped Chief Executive Officer Roberto Castello Branco from dismissing pledges by peers to completely neutralize their carbon footprints 2 decades later.
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A pair of new guidance documents from OSHA outline measures employers should take to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and reduce the risk of heat-related illness among workers wearing cloth facial coverings in hot and humid conditions or performing strenuous tasks.
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Companies, investors, and consumers alike are frustrated by a lack of standardized accounting for corporate ESG performance. This might be about to change thanks to a recent proposal from the IFRS Foundation, which is the body that oversees the work of the International Accounting Standards Board.
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This paper presents a novel matrix to identify environmental and social elements relevant for the development of oil and gas projects. It also proposes a useful traffic light and multivariate analysis methods for the evaluation of these elements.
