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Trust: The Safety Silver Bullet
Human factors expert W Ian Hamilton reflects on the process of fixing trust in order to fix safety in the workplace
Type: Feature
Australia sets new limits on heavy industry in push for decarbonisation
AUSTRALIA has passed legal reforms that set a hard cap on industrial emissions and require new gas fields supplying LNG facilities to be net zero as it pushes heavy industry to decarbonise.
Type: News
King’s speech draws fire from environmentalists as oil and gas claims branded “distraction tactics”
“IT SIMPLY won’t do what the prime minister claims,” said Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, after the king’s speech unveiled a planned bill to mandate annual oil and gas licensing in the North Sea.
Type: News
Why Soft Skills Can (and Should) be Taught
From awkward smiles to cult-avoidance strategies, Faye Litherland’s journey proves that mastering soft skills is no different to learning pump calculations – practice makes perfect
Type: Feature
Leanne Potter and Ashley Hynds take to the high seas to underline the importance of an effective management, control, and reporting system when it comes to process safety
Type: Feature
Sellafield failing to address ‘intolerable risks’, damning parliamentary report warns
MANAGEMENT of the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, UK is not responding quickly enough to “intolerable risks” at the site posed by ageing assets, a damning new report has warned.
Type: News
Partnership to develop large-scale decarbonisation project in the Humber
PHILLIPS 66, Uniper, and Vitol have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop Humber Zero, a decarbonisation project that will initially remove 8m t/y of carbon dioxide (CO2), with the potential to increase to 30m t/y. The project is part of efforts to transform the Humber region into the world’s first net-zero carbon industrial cluster by 2040.
Type: News
Viewpoint: Offshore Electrification Money Better Spent Closer to Home
The North Sea Transition Authority supports electrifying UK oil and gas sites to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but Tom Baxter argues the funds could achieve greater impact if used elsewhere
Type: Feature
Weaving the Threads of Effective Collaboration for Sustainable Development
University of Queensland colleagues share different cultural idioms for teamwork as a fresh lens for addressing global sustainability challenges, including the energy transition, plastics pollution and the UN SDGs
Type: Feature
Brexit: The Impact on Energy and Climate Change
Since Brexit negotiations have entered full force, concerns are growing about the future of the UK’s climate change policy, a lot of which is underpinned by EU regulations.
Type: Feature
Brexit: The Impact on Energy and Climate Change
What are the likely effects in the immediate and long term?
Type: Feature
Lord Cullen: Piper Alpha Investigator
Lord Cullen of Whitekirk gave this speech at the opening of Oil & Gas UK’s Safety 30 Conference in Aberdeen on 5 June. The conference marked the anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster, which Lord Cullen investigated on behalf of the government. The 106 recommendations made in his landmark 1990 report reshaped offshore safety culture
Type: Feature
Carbon Capture and Storage: Are We There Yet?
Amanda Doyle travels to Norway on a CCS safari
Type: Feature
Monitoring Methane – Meeting the Methane Pledge
Rod Robinson reviews the techniques available for monitoring methane emissions
Type: Feature
Breaking Slavery Shackles in the Supply Chain
Companies must now verify and report on robustness
Type: Feature
Spontaneous Combustion of Tortilla Chip Waste: an Unknown Known?
A analysis of a fire caused by spontaneous combustion of food waste at a factory in Texas.
Type: Feature
Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, Pralay Gayen and Vijay K Ramani discuss work on methods to make fuel and oxygen on the red planet
Type: Feature
Thailand: Covid-19 and the Vaccine
How the Covid-19 vaccine development is progressing in Thailand
Type: Feature
Breaking slavery shackles in the supply chain
Companies must now verify and report on robustness
Type: News
