Posted in conferences, energy policy, Norway, tagged Elon Musk, energy security, ONS 2022, Zelenskyy on August 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Energy security will be a featured topic at the conference. Note the lineup for the Zelenskyy session:
President Zelenskyy will be introduced by the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and will be followed on stage by Elon Musk, Ben Van Beurden (CEO, Shell), Patrick Pouyanné (CEO, TotalEnergies) and Anders Opedal (CEO, Equinor) among others.
ONS 2022
Posted in climate, conferences, energy policy, tagged COP26, OPEC, UAE Energy Minister on March 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
COP26 bans oil industry. Is this helpful?
UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei has most definitely not forgotten:
“I think in COP 26 all the producers felt they were uninvited and unwanted but now we are again superheroes, it’s not going to work like that,” he said.
Reuters
Posted in California, conferences, decommissioning, tagged California, decommissioning, Orange County Coastkeeper on January 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Per our post about old disputes preventing common sense decommissioning solutions for offshore California facilities, we were pleased to learn that an Orange County Coastkeeper’s workshop will address the flaws in the California’s unworkable rigs-to-reefs program with the objective of advancing decommissioning programs.
Coastkeeper’s upcoming Retiring Offshore Rigs Summit, or ROR, comes roughly ten years after Coastkeeper’s Rigs to Reef Conference in 2010. While that conference succeeded in passing new decommissioning and artificial reef enhancement laws, the language was not workable. In the decade since that legislation, known as AB 2503, or the “California Marine Resources Legacy Act” was signed into law, it was never implemented by the state.
Orange County Coastkeeper
Link for further information on the workshop.
Previous posts on California decommissioning:
Posted in conferences, energy policy, Offshore Energy - General, UK, Wind Energy, tagged climate, COP26, Glasgow, oil industry banned on October 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Oil firms have been banned from taking an active role in the upcoming COP26 summit.
The news is a seismic victory for climate activists.
It stops Big Oil companies from sponsoring the conference and steering the narrative away from their culpability in the climate crisis.
Euronews.green
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Posted in conferences, energy policy, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore Energy - General, tagged BOEM, carbon intensity, deepwater operations, GHG emissions, GRP, NASEM, NOIA, Wood Mackenzie on October 21, 2021| Leave a Comment »
With regard to air emissions, the advantages of deepwater Gulf of Mexico production are rather obvious:
Wood Mackenzie, NOIA, and others contend that restrictions on GoM leasing are contrary to carbon reduction goals.
An important and unintended consequence of enacting more restrictive policies such as a lease ban or increase in royalty rate in the Gulf of Mexico is that it could give rise to carbon leakage to countries that export crude to US.
Wood Mackenzie
In light of the policy implications of GHG emissions, a Carbon Intensity Workshop is highly recommended. The estimates generated by Wood Mackenzie, Rystad, and others need to be explored in depth. Is data quality an issue? How are the data verified? Is there regulator or third party oversight? What are the assumptions behind the estimates? Also, for the purposes of US policy decisions, product transportation emissions should certainly be included. A barrel produced in the Middle East is not the same as a barrel produced in the GoM.
Looking at the chart above, I have immediate questions about the drilling emissions (blue). What wells are included? What about workovers and other well operations? I’m surprised that the deepwater GoM drilling emissions are so high relative to the other regions. While dynamically positioned MODUs have high fuel consumption rates, deepwater wells are few in number relative to shale drilling. Also, why are Brazil’s drilling emissions, which I assume are primarily associated with deepwater operations, so much lower that those for the GoM.
BOEM/BSEE and/or the Gulf Research Program (NASEM) would seem to be good sponsors for such a workshop.
Posted in conferences, energy policy, Georges Bank, tagged Jonsson Center, NASEM, WHOI, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on September 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I was saddened to learn that the National Academy of Sciences is selling the Jonsson Center in Woods Hole, MA. This amazing meeting and conference facility is at a great waterfront location at the epicenter of marine research on the Atlantic Coast. You can buy the estate for a mere $27.5 million and continue its use as a conference center serving the marine science and policy communities.
“I think the concern is this is a historically important location for science, from its long history with the institutions,” said Dr. Saito. “To see one of our science institutions pack up and leave is sad for the community. Also, the loss of that conference facility, which I think is a really valuable resource for not just the area but for US science, is a sad thing to see happen as well.”
Makoto Saito, WHOI
Posted in conferences, cuba, tagged Bahamas, cuba, drilling, offshore oil, Regulation, safety on May 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“For us, the major goal is to prevent these major accidents from happening,” said Fidel Ilizastigui Perez, an official of Cuba’s Office for Environment and Nuclear Safety Regulation.
“The companies must show that they meet all international standards,” he told the conference in Port of Spain.
Perez said Cuban officials had studied and already implemented oil industry safety practices from Britain and incorporated others from the United States.
Mr. Perez participated in the 2005 International Regulators’ Offshore Safety Conference in London and made a very favorable impression.
Dan Whittle, a senior attorney at the U.S.-based Environmental Defense Fund, said the Cuban government appeared to be taking the safety issue seriously because of the potential economic benefit of the project.
“Cuba has a lot at stake,” he said. “They’re doing the best they can with limited resources and with obstacles to access those resources.”
“I think we’re seeing the beginning of a more international dialogue on what the Cubans are planning,” he added.
Sensible comments from the EDF.
Also, Cuba and the Bahamas have agreed on a maritime boundary.
Posted in conferences, cuba, drilling, tagged conference, cuba, IADC, offshore drilling, safety, Trinidad on May 11, 2011| 1 Comment »
While US politicians continue to gnash their teeth or express outrage, the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) has been busy promoting constructive dialogue about Cuban exploratory drilling. IADC has overcome major administrative obstacles and arranged for the participation of Cuban regulators in the Environmental Conference which begins tomorrow in Trinidad.
“This will pretty much be the first time the Cuban deepwater drilling project managers will make a presentation of what their regulatory requirements are going to be for the companies that drill in Cuban waters,” said Lee Hunt, president of the Houston-based International Association of Drilling Contractors, which is organizing the conference. Reuters
The Cuba session is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. I look forward to seeing the news reports and posted presentations.
Posted in conferences, tagged offshore, offshore drilling, OTC, safety on May 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Attendance at the 2011 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) reached a 29-year high of 78,150, up 8% from last year, as offshore energy industry experts from around the world came together at the world’s largest event for offshore resources development. OTC was held 2-5 May at Reliant Park in Houston.
Posted in conferences, tagged offshore drilling, offshore oil and gas, OTC on May 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Helix 15000 psi capping stack on display at OTC
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 