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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Following a further extension of an agreement between state and federal agencies regarding oil and gas industry oversight on public lands, the Colorado state director of the Bureau of Land Management is seeking to provide a better understanding of just what that agreement does and does not do. -
The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the grant awards for eight projects focused on strengthening safety culture in the offshore oil and gas industry.
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Subsea 7 and Eidesvik Offshore have been awarded the 2019 Environmental Sustainability Award from the International Marine Contractors Association in recognition of their efforts to reduce vessel emissions and improve energy efficiency.
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Safety analytics derived from virtual-reality data can quantify workers’ ability to sense physical hazards and be used to achieve a safer workplace and generative safety culture.
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In an effort to prove oil and gas developments are not as big a contributor to the Front Range’s diminishing air quality, Crestone Peak Resources announced it will install air quality monitors at all of its horizontal hydraulic fracturing sites throughout the state.
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SPE’s 2020 International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability is scheduled for 17–19 March in Bogotá, Colombia. In this video, SPE Technical Director Johana Dunlop explains why all HSE and sustainability practitioners should try to attend.
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The companies will focus on research and development to reduce CO2 emissions and promote the circular economy.
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The company said its goals underscore its strong environmental, social, and governance performance as it responds to rising global energy demand. In addition, it said, the goals are aligned with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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The international Ocean Renewable Energy Action Coalition, spearheaded by Ørsted and Equinor, has been formed to advance sustainable deployment of ocean-based renewable energy and mitigate the harmful effects of climate change.
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As the pressure to act on climate change builds, the industry should consider a range of options.
