HSE & Sustainability
Block Energy announced the completion of its carbon capture and storage pilot study, confirming the viability of the field for permanent carbon storage.
DNV awarded the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company a storage certificate at the endorsement stage for its West Aquifer site.
Four former gas-producing wells have been converted into injection wells and are now preparing to receive carbon dioxide for storage.
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The Advanced REACH Tool is a mechanistic higher-tier model to estimate inhalation exposure to chemicals using a Bayesian approach. This paper provides a discussion of the key modifying factors that should be considered to extend the model to include welding fume exposure. -
Proposed changes would modify EPA's August 2016 final rule, "Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources." The proposal has been submitted for publication to the Federal Register. Following that publication, the EPA will accept comments for 60 days.
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Fifteen members of the UN’s International Maritime Organization have voted to approve amendments to existing codes on diver safety intended to harmonize the codes “with current industry practice.”
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With concern growing that the underlying geology in the Permian Basin is reaching capacity for disposal wells, the Trump administration is examining whether to adjust decades-old federal clean-water regulations to allow drillers to discharge waste water directly into rivers and streams.
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Colorado communities and pro-oil and gas industry groups are clashing in a Supreme Court case that could change the way the state handles decisions on allowing increased fossil fuels production near people.
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A years-long fight in Colorado over how close oil and gas drilling can safely be to places where people live and work is coming to a head with an unprecedented November ballot measure that would ban such operations within at least half a mile of homes, schools, businesses, and waterways.
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Climate change involves a combination of factors that make it hard for people to get motivated.
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The 1972 Clean Water Act has driven significant improvements in US water quality, according to the first comprehensive study of water pollution over the past several decades by researchers at UC Berkeley and Iowa State University.
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Bob Dudley, the chief executive of BP, took charge of the London-based company when it was struggling to survive after the 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Dudley recently talked about the oil industry, climate change pressures, and technology.
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The object behind Ghana's local content requirement is to ensure the involvement of Ghana's own industry, including its national oil company, in the development of the exploration, production, and decommissioning value and supply chain.
