Sustainability
The annual survey is designed to gauge companies’ reporting practices regarding sustainability and governance.
Geothermal development is gaining steam and entering a transformative era, driven by breakthroughs in adapting and improving on engineering, drilling, completion, and production technologies to the efficient extraction of heat from the Earth.
In the past year, publications on CO2, natural gas, and hydrogen storage have increasingly focused on the design, evaluation, and optimization of storage plans. These efforts encompass a broad spectrum of challenges and innovations, including the expansion of storage reservoirs from depleted gas fields and saline aquifers to stratified carbonate formations and heavy-o…
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A new initiative from the Society of Petroleum Engineers has grown from the “Getting to Zero” technical report released in 2018. SPE has teamed with CEDEP to launch the Safety Leadership Academy, a three-phase program designed to address obstacles to achieving zero harm. -
Two of Europe’s largest oil and gas producers will lead four offshore wind projects that together have the potential of powering 2 million homes.
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The company’s latest sustainability report highlights progress despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The area has a potential for up to 11.8 million bbl of recoverable oil reserves. The program aims to keep oil flowing in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which has seen dwindling throughput since 1988.
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New research released by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and Resources for the Future estimates that a federal program to plug roughly half a million abandoned and so-called "orphaned" oil and gas wells could create as many as 120,000 jobs and reduce pollution.
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Many oil and gas companies have been at the forefront of the development of sustainability reporting in recent years, but expectations of greater transparency are now filtering down to mid-sized and smaller players.
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Intertek announced the first certification awarded under its new CarbonClear independent upstream carbon intensity certification program. The certification was awarded to Lundin Energy for its Edvard Grieg field in the central North Sea.
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Investors and consumers are pressuring companies to incorporate environment, social, and governance (ESG) practices into their culture and operations. Now, ESG has gone from a nice-to-have feature to a must-have prerequisite.
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The objective behind Ghana's local content requirement is to ensure the involvement of Ghana's industry, including its national oil company, in the development of the exploration, production, and decommissioning value and supply chain.
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URTeC 2020’s opening plenary session panel shared insights into how the shale industry can scale technology, fiscal restraint, and social responsibility into a sustainable business case for a new energy landscape.
