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May 15, 2019
In connection with loading oil from buoy to shuttle tanker on the North Sea Statfjord field, oil was observed on the sea surface early this morning, May 15, 2019.
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May 14, 2019
Russia is racing to return oil exports to normal after deliveries to eastern Europe were cut by a contamination crisis that shut down parts of the Druzhba pipeline.
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May 13, 2019
Subsea service specialist Rovco has been awarded the full suite of health, safety and environmental management system standards by DNV – only two and a half years after they launched.
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May 12, 2019
The U.S. Coast Guard said on Saturday it’s too early to estimate when the Houston Ship Channel can reopen after a collision that spilled about 9,000 barrels of a gasoline ingredient into the water.
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May 08, 2019
ExxonMobil has said it will invest up to $100 million over 10 years to research and develop advanced lower-emissions technologies with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and National Energy Technology Laboratory.
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May 08, 2019
For Darren Woods, Exxon Mobil Corp.’s CEO, the answer to climate change won’t be found in solar panels or high-profile global accords, but rather in a U.S. government laboratory.
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May 03, 2019
Eni SpA’s plan to offset emissions from its oil and gas operations will focus on working with African communities to prevent deforestation.
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April 25, 2019
In an effort to address diversity in the oil and gas industry, the Petroleum Equipment and Services Association (PESA) has provided member companies with a toolkit to help further progress towards each organization’s diversity and inclusion goals.
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April 24, 2019
Equinor is the latest large oil company to bow to a major investor group that is pushing corporations to take more robust action on climate change.
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April 22, 2019
Earth Day is celebrated by more than a billion people every year.
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April 20, 2019
Colorado oil and gas regulators are taking the first steps to implement a new law that makes public health and the environment their top priority.
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April 08, 2019
Shell has announced a program to invest in natural ecosystems as part of its strategy to act on global climate change, including addressing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions generated by customers when using its products. Shell plans to invest $300 million over the next three years.
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April 04, 2019
The viability of electric vehicles depends in part on a manufacturing plant in eastern Australia, where gleaming white cabinets the size of large refrigerators are loaded onto shipping crates.
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April 03, 2019
As part of Pope Francis' campaign to counter climate change, the Vatican has extended a second invitation to major oil companies to participate in a discussion about their company's roles in generating and reducing pollution.
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April 02, 2019
Shell’s position on climate change is misaligned with about half of the trade associations it’s a part of, and the disagreement with one is so severe the company will let its membership lapse next year.
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March 27, 2019
Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa state started an inquiry into the human and environmental impact of spills caused by multinational businesses operating in the region, opening a potential new conflict with companies that pump the bulk of the nation’s crude.
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March 26, 2019
Wood has been awarded a prestigious multi-million dollar contract by the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative Climate Investments (OGCI CI) to provide conceptual engineering for its gas power and industrial carbon capture conceptual design work.
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March 26, 2019
BP has announced that it has established a $100 million fund for projects that will deliver new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in its upstream oil and gas operations.
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March 24, 2019
Massimo Inguscio, president of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and Claudio Descalzi, Eni CEO, following their meeting held last May, have signed a Joint Research Agreement (JRA), to set up four linked research centers in southern Italy. Also, in attendance were Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Minister for Southern Italy Barbara Lezzi and the President of the Apulia Region, Michele Emiliano.
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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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