Sustainability
2025 has seen an 81% year-on-year rise in the number of small modular reactor (SMR) designs to have secured at least one source of funding or a funding commitment.
A newly formed global coalition, Carbon Measures, aims to develop a ledger-based carbon accounting framework and champion market-based solutions to drive emissions reduction.
APOGCE 2025 set the stage for strategic dialogues on how Asia Pacific’s upstream industry can innovate, invest, and collaborate to meet growing energy demand while advancing net-zero goals.
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Solar and natural gas surged last year in the US, while wind stumbled. -
Energy storage is essential to a clean electricity grid, but aggressive decarbonization goals require development of long-duration energy storage technologies.
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The year 2023 contained several important sustainability narratives and trends. Three key ones are the anti-ESG movement, China’s acceleration of a clean economy, and the rise of reporting regulations.
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The Gulf region can leverage its energy history, infrastructure, capacity, and expertise to lead the energy transition.
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This paper investigates the extent to which corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of oil companies operating in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria contribute to the development of host communities across the region.
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This paper discusses housing pulverized blades mixed with Portland cement in wells considered for plugging and abandonment.
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This paper discusses the importance of modular refineries and their effects on the availability of petroleum products in Nigeria.
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This paper describes a method to manage high-salinity produced water in an environmentally sustainable way by extracting potable water and reducing discharge water volume by at least 50%.
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The authors of this paper discuss the use of dissolved polystyrene waste for the preparation of nanomembranes for separation of hydrocarbon pollutants from wastewater streams.
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The captured carbon dioxide will be permanently sequestered in the Cameron Parish CO2 Hub to be located offshore Louisiana.
