HSE & Sustainability
The AI revolution isn't just digital. This article examines how geology underpins the convergence of AI, energy, carbon management, and the infrastructure powering frontier LLMs.
Winners of Alberta's Drilling Technology Challenge cover a range of technologies from robotics to enhance drilling rig safety to AI-enabled energy management, downhole sensing, well navigation, hybrid power systems, and geothermal energy.
Located along the North Sea, the Humber is expected to play a central role in the UK’s effort to achieve a net-zero emissions status by 2050.
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The country has announced that it plans to phase out all oil extraction by 2050. -
The Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota has now captured 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, a milestone in the synthetic natural gas production facilities’ 20-year effort to lower the impacts of energy production.
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The storage of CO2 under the seabed may add millions of tons per year to global carbon-capture totals. The finance and investment sectors are recognizing the value these projects may bring to portfolios aligned with achieving climate-change goals
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Companies, investors, and consumers alike are frustrated by a lack of standardized accounting for corporate ESG performance. This might be about to change thanks to a recent proposal from the IFRS Foundation, which is the body that oversees the work of the International Accounting Standards Board.
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President-elect Biden and his administration likely will make significant changes to environmental, health, and safety rules and policies that will roll back Trump administration environmental actions and increase civil and criminal enforcement of environmental laws.
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Petrobras is pledging a 25% cut in carbon emissions by 2030, but that hasn’t stopped Chief Executive Officer Roberto Castello Branco from dismissing pledges by peers to completely neutralize their carbon footprints 2 decades later.
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A pair of new guidance documents from OSHA outline measures employers should take to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and reduce the risk of heat-related illness among workers wearing cloth facial coverings in hot and humid conditions or performing strenuous tasks.
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This paper presents a novel matrix to identify environmental and social elements relevant for the development of oil and gas projects. It also proposes a useful traffic light and multivariate analysis methods for the evaluation of these elements.
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What is to become the largest shale producer in the Permian Basin is stepping up its efforts to curb emissions and has shared new details in its annual sustainability report.
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The first seminar looks at carbon capture, utilization, and storage as a way to achieve net-zero emissions. The second looks at the Methane Guiding Principles and its efforts to address methane throughout the natural gas supply chain.
