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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International Environmental Standards, the new company created by the merger of Project Canary and Independent Energy Standards, will combine continuous emissions-monitoring technology with TrustWell certification to create a provider of independent environmental, social, and governance performance. -
The 2020 SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability initially was planned to be held in Bogota, Colombia. The pandemic forced a last-minute change to virtual, but that did not slow down the networking or free flow of vital information.
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The 10,000 mirrors arrayed around the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy plant are striking and seem to suggest the concept is on a path to efficient and reliable renewable energy. But, recently, the plant’s operator threw in the towel and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. So, what went wrong?
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Recent advances in data technology and machine learning have disrupted many businesses and processes and can lead to a new paradigm in workplace safety as well. This case study demonstrates the application of data science and predictive analytics to aid the health, safety, and environment function.
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Intertek announced the first certification awarded under its new CarbonClear independent upstream carbon intensity certification program. The certification was awarded to Lundin Energy for its Edvard Grieg field in the central North Sea.
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In 2013, ExxonMobil PNG facilitated a public/private partnership to improve healthcare education at the University of Papua New Guinea and clinical management in child health at Port Moresby General Hospital and other facilities.
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The good news is that the 2020 HSE and Sustainability conference will go ahead at the end of July 2020 as one of the first fully virtual conferences and exhibits offered by the SPE.
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The complete paper discusses Equinor’s operation planning tool, developed to present planners with the technical conditions of a platform, identify potentially dangerous combinations of concurrent activities, and propose learnings from 8 years of incident recordings.
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International SOS has led medical services operations on offshore installations globally and has managed clinical cases in which patients presented with signs and symptoms of known infectious illnesses.
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The complete paper describes the development of, and summarizes the major changes and additions to, the Environmental Management in the Oil and Gas Industry guide.
