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EFD September 2015 Newsletter
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 Last Call for Entries:
GE-Statoil Open Innovation Challenge
The deadline for submissions for GE Oil & Gas and Statoil's Open Innovation Challenge is quickly approaching!
Their second Challenge - focusing on water use in shale oil and gas development - seeks innovative solutions for reducing fresh water usage, as well as treating and reusing water from development activities.
The Challenge is crowdsourced and open to all: academics, engineers, individual innovators, and companies of any size. Up to five winners will be awarded an initial cash prize of $25,000 USD each, with an additional $375,000 USD available as a discretionary prize pool of development funds.
Entries will be accepted through Thursday, September 24. Click here for guidelines and requirements or visit poweringcollaboration.com for updates, submission forms, and first-round winner profiles.
Texas General Land Office
Adopt a Beach - Fall Beach Clean Up
September 26, 2015
Volunteers remove an average of 500 tons of trash each year from Texas beaches. Since 1986, over 476,000 volunteers have removed more than
17 million pounds of trash from Texas beaches and estuaries!
EPA Announces Public Hearings on Proposed Oil & Gas rules.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold three public hearings on proposed updates to the agency's air rules for the oil and natural gas industry. EPA has proposed commonsense standards that would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and volatile organic compounds from this rapidly growing industry. The proposal is a part of the Administration's strategy under President Obama's Climate Action Plan to reduce methane emissions from this sector. The agency also has proposed two rules to clarify permitting requirements for the oil and gas industry in states and Indian country.
EFD Program Workshop
Electrification for Oil and Gas Operations
October 22, 2015
8:30AM - 4:30PM
The Woodlands, Texas
Together with our partners in industry and academia, EFD is working to find ways to convert gas that would otherwise be flared into electric power for oilfield operations. New technologies are being developed to drive drilling and fracturing with increased efficiency, fewer emissions and opportunities to integrate automation. Free Registration
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EFD Program featured in Shale Play Water Management Magazine July/August, 2015 edition
'Industry and Academia Collaboration Addresses Water-Management Challenges"
"The EFD program has teamed with a number of solution providers to take a systems approach to water management with the goal to deliver information to stakeholders." Read article reprint here.
EFD Sponsors can call upon the EFD Team to work with them to meet the challenges of the program. The EFD Team could assist sponsors with identification and implementation of best practices to reduce methane emissions. In addition, the EFD Team would work with sponsors to establish a standardized method to track progress and emission reductions.
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EFD Program named as Finalist for 2 Awards!
(Best Health, Safety, Environment/Sustainable Development
Onshore Award
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Please let us know if you're planning to attend! Tables available! Both Galas are on Thursday, October 15, 2015 .
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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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