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 pureplay water midstream company bought the produced water infrastructure associated with Colgate’s purchase of Occidental acreage in June. -
Major US oil and gas producers have cut the volume of natural gas flared from oil and gas wells by 50% in a year as measured by energy intensity, according to a partnership organized by the industry's largest trade group.
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In recent years, the oil and gas industry has faced increased regulatory pressure as governments around the world seek to reduce a variety of emissions. In addition to added regulatory pressure, oil and gas companies must also consider the effect emissions have on their field personnel.
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In a perspective piece that appears in the journal Science, Elaine Hill, an economist in the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Public Health Sciences, calls for tighter regulation and monitoring of unconventional oil and gas development as more evidence points to the negative health consequences of the practice.
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Researchers form South Dakota Mines are studying microbial acceleration of carbon mineralization with extremophiles found at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.
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Shell moves nonessential personnel off its Perdido deepwater platform as a result of Tropical Storm Nicholas.
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Amid investor pressure, ExxonMobil taps its Poker Lake facility in New Mexico as the company’s first for natural-gas certification.
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Strong storms can trigger steep, breaking waves that slam into platform and wind turbines with tremendous force. Scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SINTEF are studying the behavior of offshore structures subjected to these kinds of waves. Their goal is to increase safety at sea.
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Polish oil company will take an additional 2 mtpa for 20 years.
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Purchasing carbon offsets is a widespread means of attempting to meet carbon-reduction and net-zero emissions goals across many industries. Also widespread is the increasing scrutiny of the practice. How “real” are the offsets? How are they quantified and verified, and by whom?
