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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Video shows a substantial share of oil and gas flares are unlit or faulty, revealing a previously overlooked methane source that could turn out to be one of the region’s biggest. -
The French oil and gas major announced that it plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 for its global business across production and including energy products used by its customers.
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Sourcing water, flowback water services threatened as D&Cs decline.
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How do we gear up for the next stage as countries start opening for business again? Do we try to go back to the way things were, or do we decide to evolve our strategies? Perhaps we can reimagine what sustainability in our industry looks like.
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Dutch companies are among the latest to explore the transformation of seawater into sustainable energy.
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The human-factors approach in oil and gas remains an emerging science compared with other industries; most human-factors publications in the oil and gas industry focus their application on the design stage. Human-factors methods, however, can be applied at any stage.
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Proposal requests were sent to companies to solicit partnerships for the project with ADNOC and ADPower.
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The report from the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers is in relation to a person who used alcohol-based hand gel sanitizer and, after application but before the liquid had fully evaporated, touched a metal surface, where a build-up of static ignited the alcohol.
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Malaysia’s push to explore energy blocks off its coast has turned into a five-nation face off involving US and Chinese warships, raising the risk of a direct confrontation as broader tensions grow between the world’s biggest economies.
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While sustainability is approached through various means within the industry, at its core is the welfare of human beings. Recent SPE papers demonstrate the importance of human rights in the industry’s drive toward sustainability.
