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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In the US Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook 2020 reference case, which assumes no new laws and regulations, US energy-related carbon dioxide emissions decrease through the early 2030s before increasing to 4.9 billion metric tons in 2050.
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President Trump’s limited references to the environment in his State of the Union address included a plan to combat climate change with trees and a claim that his “bold regulatory reduction campaign” had boosted the oil and gas industry.
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OSHA requires construction and manufacturing businesses, among others, to complete and regularly update paperwork related to workplace safety. Do you know your company’s OSHA recordkeeping obligations?
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The aim of the new site is to report the positive stories about how our industry is having a beneficial impact on people’s lives.
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The Bureau of Land Management may stop studying how its long-term blueprints for millions of acres of public lands would affect the environment.
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The fatality rate for oil and gas workers is seven times higher than other industries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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ExxonMobil is planning to build and operate a carbon capture facility in southwest Wyoming, according to a permit application filed with the state's environmental regulatory agency in January.
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IOGP today launched JIP33 flare package specification guidelines for public review and comment.
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The 2020 SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability will be held in conjunction with the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference. Early registration is open until 19 February.
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The new standardized ERA Acute method provides quantitative assessment of environmental impact and risk of acute oil spills covering four environmental compartments: sea surface, shoreline, water column, and seafloor.