Sustainability

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January 22, 2025
Envana has been awarded a grant totaling $5.2 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance oil and gas methane monitoring and mitigation technologies. The funding is part of the DOE’s Methane Emissions Reduction Program.
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January 22, 2025
KBR has been awarded a contract to support sustainable production of energy resources in Saudi Arabia by contributing to the delivery of Saudi Aramco's Master Expansion Program and increasing gas handling capacity at key regional locations.
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January 22, 2025
In an exclusive interview with Energy Capital & Power, Pedro Ribeiro shared TotalEnergies strategic plans to enhance field performance, increase production at Waha and Sharara and advance exploration efforts in the Murzuq Basin. 
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January 21, 2025
MAGA Republican leaders, the so-called ‘climate deniers’—and its leader (Trump) label climate change a “hoax.” What does this mean for climate policy and the energy transition in the U.S.? And will the change in U.S. policy affect European policy as well?
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January 21, 2025
ADNOC Gas celebrated a new long-term strategic partnership with EWEC (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) to support the UAE’s energy transformation. This landmark agreement is underpinned by a 10-year flexible natural gas sales and purchase agreement between ADNOC Gas Facilities LLC and EWEC worth $10 billion. 
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January 15, 2025
Highwood Emissions Management has announced the launch of their Emissions Intelligence Platform (EIP), a software that streamlines complex measurement-informed methane emissions accounting and reporting for the oil and gas industry.
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January 10, 2025
TotalEnergies, Basra Oil Company and QatarEnergy broke ground on a $250 million project to capture gas from the Ratawi oil field in Southern Iraq. The planned facility will process 50 million cu. ft. per day of gas that was previously flared, TotalEnergies stated.
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January 10, 2025
Constellation and Calpine Corp. today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Constellation will acquire Calpine in a cash and stock transaction valued at an equity purchase price of approximately $16.4 billion.
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January 08, 2025
Pioneer Energy has been granted four awards by the U.S. DOE totaling $27 million. Pioneer will use the funds to advance its Emission Control Treater™ (ECT), a near-zero emissions well pad production technology that can increase crude yield by 5-10%.
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January 06, 2025
(Bloomberg) – California received permission to move forward with a project that would inject carbon dioxide into the state’s deep rock formation using a technology that has long tantalized the fossil fuel industry but has yet to break through.
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January 04, 2025
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released a statement regarding the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s final regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit.
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December 31, 2024
Sinopec has released the first sustainability report published by a Chinese company in Algeria, with the goal to establish a long-term, sustainable model and unity between oil and gas exploration, environmental protection and social progress.
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December 30, 2024
Flotek has provided an update regarding flare monitoring regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA's proposed amendments, issued Dec. 20, address industry concerns on the complexity of flare monitoring and testing.
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December 23, 2024
Annual methane emissions stemming from oil and gas production operations in the Permian basin decreased 26% in 2023 from the previous year, according to a new analysis by S&P Global Commodity Insights.
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December 12, 2024
Baker Hughes and the University of California, Berkeley have announced a new long-term research partnership to establish the Baker Hughes Institute for Decarbonization Materials at UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry.
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December 10, 2024
INEOS with its partners Harbour Energy and Nordsøfonden, has made a Final Investment Decision (FID) on the first commercial phase of Project Greensand, with storage operations set to begin at the end of 2025/early 2026.
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December 09, 2024
ADNOC has signed a second Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the lower-carbon Ruwais liquified natural gas (LNG) project, with Malaysia’s Petronas. The 15-year SPA is for supplying 1 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.
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December 04, 2024
HullWiper has joined with Unidive Subsea to bring its ROV hull cleaning technology to PSA terminals, Seatrium Yards and Singapore’s inner anchorages. Plans are also in place to serve FPSOs, FSOs and semi-submersibles under contracts with regional oil and gas companies.
Article
November 2024
How intelligent rig controls hold the key to peak drilling performance with a lower carbon footprint.  
Article
November 2024
Blue hydrogen intersects traditional fossil fuels and the emerging low-carbon economy. For upstream companies, this convergence offers a way to participate in the energy transition and decarbonize hard-to-abate industries. In the near term, blue hydrogen will play a key role in regions with abundant natural gas and suitable CO₂ storage sites.  
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November 2024
With President-elect Trump and his pro-oil stance set to take position in office, a new Secretary of Energy candidate who opposes much of the ESG movement, and Liberty Oil suing the SEC for overreach — are we seeing the end of the ESG movement?
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