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For more than 80 years Schlumberger has been leveraging knowledge to deliver solutions that improve performance, and increasingly applying their technical abilities in the design and engineering of products that can help customers reduce their environmental impacts. Within their company, numerous performance improvements achieved through the application of their global Environmental Standard have brought significant advances, most notably in relation to waste and water management.
Each year, as part of their worldwide environmental assessment process, more than 75 auditors assess over 750 locations using their rigorous Environmental Standard, which requires compliance with either local requirements or their often-more-demanding internal standards.
Schlumberger is increasingly applying their technical abilities to the reduction of our environmental footprint, particularly in the design and engineering of their products. They have achieved numerous environmental performance improvements in their products along with reductions in resource consumption and decreased emissions at many of their manufacturing facilities and field operations worldwide.*
* from Schlumber's website
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Dopeless Technology
Debuts in Alaska
An important European national oil and gas company successfully drilled the first complete Dopeless® technology well in Alaska in March 2014. The operation took place at Alaska's North Slope, located on the northern part of the Brooks Range on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Due to the extreme environment where the running took place, the customer chose Dopeless® technology since it arrives rig ready, making operations more efficient while minimizing environmental impact.
The customer selected TenarisHydril Wedge 521™ and Wedge 563™ premium connections with Dopeless® technology on an L80 steel grade. The Dopeless® solution makes compounds used for running and storage obsolete, enhancing the performance of the premium connection. In cold weather environments this also means avoiding frozen storage grease complicating the running.
Using Dopeless® technology, this particular customer saved an estimated 6.1 hours of rig time and 84 man hours. There were zero rejects and zero re-makeups after running 750 joints with Dopeless® technology.
According to Fernando Sanchez Moreno, North and Western US Sales Director, this successful running bodes well for the future of Dopeless® technology in the region. "Dopeless® technology is a perfect fit for an environmentally sensitive region like Alaska. The customer perceived aggregated value in our proposal, which is clearly aligned with the strategy to establish a differentiated position in the region," he said.
"Dopeless® technology has given many of our customers, in areas with strict environmental regulations, an eco-friendly drilling operation" said Tomás Castiñeiras, Tenaris's Dopeless® Technology Development Director.
In addition to HSE and run time benefits, the customer said the increased visibility of the pipe threads due to the application of the Dopeless® coating was a significant advantage during make-and-breaks.*
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'Continuing the Quest'
Message Board
The Quest to Reduce the Environmental Footprint
Operators, service companies, suppliers, research universities, government agencies and environmental organizations are all interested in working together to devise innovative methods to reduce the environmental footprint of onshore field development requiring high density drilling and completion operations.
Taking a holistic approach in addressing environmental and community issues such as air, water, and land, we wish to focus on identifying gaps as well as opportunities.
EFD would like to provide an area for discussion for stakeholders to share experiences, technological advances (current, on the horizon and sought) and other 'lessons learned.' This project is the outcome of the SPE Research Forum 'The Quest to Reduce the Environmental Footprint' held in July of 2013.
Registration is required in order to post on the message board. It's quick, easy and free!
Please visit the board on the EFD website.
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STEER
2014 Eagle Ford Excellence Awards
STEER represents the 13 largest operators in the Eagle Ford Shale region and focuses on facilitating communication and the enhancement of the industry and the communities in which they operate. STEER stands by its commitment to protect and preserve the health of the environment, communities and individuals in our South Texas communities.
Deadline for entries is September 12, 2014.
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The Health Effects Institute (HEI), with organizational support from the University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics, hosted the workshop
"Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: What Do We Need to Learn About Potential Impacts?" in June. Workshop participants met members of HEI's Special Scientific Committee on Potential Impacts of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Appalachian Basin.
The sessions focused upon potential impacts and associated research recommendations.
Materials from this workshop are now posted at HEI's website.
For more information, contact Donna Vorhees 617-488-2317 dvorhees@healtheffects.org
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August 25-27, 2014 Denver, CO
September 16-17, 2014
October 1, 2014
Morgantown, WV
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Diesel Displacement
Dual Fuel & Bi-Fuel
Part of a series of white papers concerning the use of natural gas to power drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations. |
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Come see EFD at URTec!
Booth 1618
The EFD Team will be exhibiting at the 2014 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference in Denver, Colorado
25-27 August 2014  EFD Virtual Site Kiosk
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US Army Corps of Engineers & USEPA Seek Public Input on Proposed Definition of Waters of the United States Under the Clean Water Act
Comments due
October 20,2014
Click here for more information.
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Water Management Aspects of Shale Plays
This course will provide the participants with a good overview of water management, and treatment strategies including topics on sourcing, transportation, storage, treatment technologies, disposal and the regulatory framework.
This is a practical training class where analytical techniques will be taught with a hands-on approach utilizing current methodologies and instrumentation in a full-scale teaching laboratory on actual oil & gas waters from various shale plays.
Sample collection, sample preparation and laboratory skills will be emphasized and participants will be able to enhance their laboratory skills and knowledge of methodologies.
Learn more here!
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As part of the Coastal Impacts Assistance Program,
Artist Boat offers the following programs:
Watershed Education Training
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Stewardship Training in the Coastal Zone for Petrochemical Industrial Workers
For more information, contact Karla Klay at Artist Boat
kklay@artistboat.org
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Virtual Fracturing Site Coming
this month!
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October 23, 2014
Austin, Texas
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The EFD program, funded by federal, state and foreign government agencies, industry and environmental organizations, provides unbiased science to policy makers and identifies, develops and tests new technologies, processes and systems to reduce the environmental footprint associated with oil and gas activities, from well site selection through natural gas compression. The program, approximately $4 million per year, is engaged in research and technology transfer activities from the Western Slope of the Rockies to the Ukraine, and from the North Slope of Alaska to Columbia (South America). Research includes land, air and water issues, as well as public perception investigations. The program was honored with the Chairman's Stewards Award for Environmental Partnership at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. For more information, see: www.efdsystems.org.
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