HSE & Sustainability
This article addresses the challenges of managing water-soluble organics (WSOs) in offshore produced water. It provides a brief discussion of the chemistry, along with strategies and technologies that can be used to manage WSO levels in produced water, thus facilitating compliance with regulatory overboard water-quality guidelines.
Spain has granted permits covering a swath of the mountain range to Mantle8 for natural hydrogen and helium exploration a month after France granted the company similar permits.
Crude benchmarks spiked amid concerns that the US-Iran ceasefire is collapsing as commercial shipping comes under renewed attack.
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This paper will demonstrate that, instead of building higher security fences, the process of understanding marginalized communities and engaging with neighboring communities is key to building relationships and neutralizing hostility. -
The law requires strengthening restrictions on pollution, and regulators are charged with writing new rules to enforce the policy.
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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement says its staffing and inspections are up, while the environmental group Oceana says that oil and gas drillers have a financial incentive to ignore safety.
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Equinor has agreed to align its business model with the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord and will review its corporate lobbying policy and the carbon intensity of its products, the company said. It will also link executive pay to climate-related targets.
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Even as the Trump administration has taken steps to expand offshore oil drilling, a new report shows that thousands of oil spills are still happening and that workers in the oil and gas industry are still dying on the job.
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America’s hottest oil patch is producing so much natural gas that, by the end of last year, producers were burning off more than enough of the fuel to meet residential demand across the whole of Texas.
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Behavior-based safety is not a new concept nor is it new at Murphy Oil. But when Murphy launched its Safety Observation Program as a digital tool, it revitalized the way the culture of safety spread throughout the company.
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Safety depends on developing a dedicated culture mind-set and mitigation of risks, from the planning and engineering phases to the work site. These papers selected by OGF technical paper editor Gerald Verbeek present various practices for reducing and eliminating the number of incidents.
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For employees to report on safety incidents, there must be a ‘just culture,’ where issues can be discussed freely and underlying causes investigated and corrected without fear of punitive actions.
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This paper describes an operator’s experience with HFE during the construction and fabrication/installation phase of projects, including welding during the fabrication of buoyancy tanks, emergency preparedness, and the use of 3D model walk-throughs.
