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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The most recent report from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and December’s international conference on climate change held in Katowice, Poland, show that the world is not coming close to reaching the targets set in the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015.
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The term sustainability is widely used. Unfortunately, when applied to hydrocarbon energy sources, it is often mentioned in a negative way. Too often, the focus is on reducing the use of hydrocarbon fuels, or measuring the emissions resulting from burning of hydrocarbon products.
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A hands-on workshop set for 14 February in Houston will be led by industry leaders in health, safety, and environment to provide participants the opportunity to learn how to inspire, motivate, and lead for safety and operational excellence.
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SponsoredNew extreme environment ultracapacitor technology will allow directional drillers to eliminate lithium from their entire supply chain. These advanced ultracapacitors can be coupled with downhole turbine generators to provide reliable downhole power without the need for lithium.
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Commission approves 1,000-ft setback from school property, including outdoor areas.
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The Coast Guard has partially assumed federal control of response operations to contain an oil discharge from the site of the collapsed Mississippi Canyon Block 20 offshore platform 11 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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A year and a half after President Donald Trump reversed an Obama administration decision to block TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a federal district judge in Montana has halted the project again, citing an insufficient review of the project's environmental impact.
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OSHA’s efforts to require employers to report occupational fatalities and certain injuries in a timely manner lack “sufficient guidance on how to detect and prevent underreporting,” the Department of Labor Office of Inspector General states in its semiannual report to Congress.
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Upstream oil and gas operations are inherently loud environments. With the right equipment, training, and hearing-conservation program, these noisy operations need not pose a risk to workers’ hearing.
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The Technical Integrity Management System is a means of ensuring that the people, system, processes, and resources that deliver technical integrity are in place, in use, and fit-for-purpose throughout the whole life cycle of the assets, to avoid major accidents while meeting production objectives.