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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Abdulmunim Al Kindy, upstream director at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, delivered the keynote address at SPE’s international HSE conference in Abu Dhabi, saying that fundamental changes in work practices mean that effective HSE protection measures must remain at the center of operations. -
The Society of Petroleum Engineers has released the technical report “Getting to Zero and Beyond: The Path Forward.” The report consolidates lessons and visions of safety from hundreds of leaders in the oil and gas industry and presents recommendations for companies and the industry as a whole.
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The 2018 Outstanding Young Professional Award was presented to BP’s Marcin Nazaruk at this year’s SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility in Abu Dhabi.
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This paper suggests that the value of environmental monitoring during seismic acquisition can extend further than compliance, suggesting that the design and application of a comprehensive environmental monitoring program can bring substantial environmental benefits and extend working relationships.
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Woodside has joined BP, Eni, ExxonMobil, Gazprom, Repsol, Shell, Statoil, Total ,and Wintershall in signing the guiding principles that commit it to further reduce methane emissions from the natural gas assets it operates.
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When selecting extinguishers, most organizations insist on quality, often deferring to the UL fire ratings with the expectation that higher ratings mean better firefighting capability. For some fires, that is true; however, in high-risk environments, the opposite can be true.
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An 18-month project will develop and trial a mobile robot for autonomous operational inspection of Total facilities.
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Shell—Yes, That Shell—Just Outlined a Radical Scenario for What It Would Take To Halt Climate ChangeRoyal Dutch Shell outlined a scenario in which, by 2070, we would be using far less of the company’s own product—oil—as cars become electric, a massive carbon storage industry develops, and transportation begins a shift toward a reliance on hydrogen as an energy carrier.
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Lack of situational awareness in drilling operations has become an important safety factor. This study presents experiments conducted in a virtual-reality drilling simulator equipped with eye-tracking technology that can be used to distinguish between less and more aware/alert participants.
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This year started at full tilt in the HSE and sustainability discipline with the Human Factors Technical Section contributing significantly to a well-attended National Academies of Science workshop in Houston.
