HSE & Sustainability
The Pawnee Carbon Sequestration Project, which would use a repurposed well, is planned to capture and store up to 400,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, with first injection targeted for early 2027.
DNV notes that energy and industrial process-related carbon emissions will have dropped by 2050 by only 44% from today’s level, not even halfway to the net-zero pledge envisioned by the Paris climate agreement.
SPE's new Asset Integrity Technical Section brings together industry experts to advance best practices in reliability engineering, asset integrity, risk reduction, and infrastructure performance. The global community will focus on the safe, reliable, and sustainable operation of energy assets across both traditional and emerging energy sectors.
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The DOI guidance explains how states can apply for the first $775 million in grant funding available this year under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create jobs cleaning up polluted and unsafe orphaned oil and gas wellsites across the country. -
The company uses unmanned aerial vehicles to measure methane offshore.
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With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulting in lower supplies to oil markets ahead of peak demand season, the International Energy Agency has released a plan that it says can cut global oil demand by 2.7 million BOPD, easing strains and price pain.
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The Norwegian platform was taken off line as a precaution after an undersea earthquake shook the area.
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Research conducted by Rystad Energy indicates that spending on carbon capture and storage will quadruple in the next 3 years.
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New lease agreements have secured more than 700 million metric tons of potential CO2 sequestration capacity.
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Data science plays an increasing role in the fight against climate change. As we use data science to develop innovative solutions to climate change, we should be careful not to replicate, or worsen, existing inequities—or create new ones.
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Higher bonding amounts and an expanded orphaned well program will fund the cleanup of thousands of aging sites.
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This marks the first time the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has formally incorporated environmental justice considerations into one of its policies, making environmental justice a matter to be considered systematically in FERC proceedings for certificates of public convenience and necessity.
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A study in North Dakota found that respiratory illness increased as far as 60 miles away from flaring of natural gas.
