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March 15, 2019
Eni SpA committed to eliminating all carbon dioxide emissions from its oil and gas exploration and production operations by the end of the next decade, in part by planting forests on a large scale.
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March 14, 2019
At a fraction of the cost of conventional tools, Coretrax, the wellbore clean-up and abandonment specialist, is increasing its stock of CX-Enviroplugs to meet demand for a safe, simple and significantly cost-effective solution for big bore cement plug placement.
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February 28, 2019
DNV GL has opened a failure analysis facility in Houston, Texas which will provide failure analyses that support the industry in conducting effective and efficient root cause analyses.
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February 28, 2019
Right from the start of London’s biggest gathering of oil traders and producers, uncomfortable truths began to intrude upon the usual round of business meetings and cocktail parties.
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February 27, 2019
The American Petroleum Institute released the third edition of API Recommended Practice 1160 (RP 1160), “Managing System Integrity for Hazardous Liquid Pipelines.”
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February 27, 2019
The Gazprom Board of Directors expressed approval of the Company’s ongoing occupational, industrial and fire safety efforts and environmental protection measures.
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February 18, 2019
The scientist who built the most prominent Cold War energy advisory said the U.S. and Russia should set aside their fight over natural gas markets and focus on slashing fossil fuel pollution more quickly.
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February 18, 2019
There’s only so much you can do to make oil and gas production cleaner.
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February 14, 2019
The Energy Outlook explores the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition.
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February 12, 2019
Recovery of vegetation on plugged and abandoned oil and gas well sites on the Colorado Plateau is influenced by time, moisture, nonnative plants and the type of plant community that was originally in place before well sites were constructed, according to a recently published study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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February 07, 2019
Chevron Corp. vowed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with the Paris Accord on climate change, potentially averting a shareholder rebellion at its annual general meeting.
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January 28, 2019
On the first day of its 20th annual meeting in Florence, Italy, Baker Hughes, a GE company has announced its commitment to reduce its CO2 equivalent emissions 50% by 2030, achieving net-zero CO2 equivalent emissions by 2050.
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December 24, 2018
BOEM has announced it will publish in the Federal Register a Call for Information and Nominations covering proposed oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico Western, Central, and Eastern Planning Areas, except for those areas currently subject to the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 moratorium.
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December 20, 2018
The Trump administration will take a major step toward drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with an analysis of how plans for leasing the territory could affect wildlife in the area.
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December 19, 2018
Clock Spring Company, Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of highly innovative and engineered products for the repair and rehabilitation of pipe-based critical infrastructure, has announced a technology licensing and distribution agreement for the Pipeotech AS DeltaV-Seal technology.
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December 16, 2018
Envoys at a United Nations conference adopted a set of steps on fighting climate change meant to guide efforts to rein in greenhouse gas pollution worldwide.
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October 26, 2018
The oil industry is rolling in cash again, but it’s not time for a party. Instead company bosses are vying to show the most monk-like devotion to austerity.
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October 22, 2018
In Oman, temperatures are so high, roads melt. The searing heat triggers sensors that roughnecks extracting natural gas from a BP well are wearing across their chests.
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September 27, 2018
BP, Equinor, Shell and Total CEOs announce that they have agreed to join forces to create a collaborative approach to human rights supplier assessments in the energy industry.
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September 26, 2018
The world’s biggest oil and gas companies made an unprecedented vow to cut their contributions to global warming, even as they warned of a potential backlash from pushing change too quickly.
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September 20, 2018
ExxonMobil said it will join the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a voluntary initiative representing 13 of the world’s largest oil and gas producers working collaboratively toward solutions to mitigate the risks of climate change.
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