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EFD November 2015 Newsletter
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EFD Program wins VZ Environmental Award for
Excellence in Environmental Stewardship in the Southwest and Midcontinent Oil & Gas Awards
 Houston Advanced Research Center 's EFD Program attended the Southwest and Midcontinent Oil & Gas Awards and received the VZ Environmental Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship on October 15, 2015. The annual Southwest and Midcontinent gala ceremony was held in Dallas, TX, where hundreds of oil and gas executives gathered together to celebrate Operational Excellence, innovations in technology, Corporate Social Responsibility, Health & Safety and Environmental Stewardship. Award information here.
Also at the Oil & Gas Awards, Apache went home with the CSR Award!
(GE, NOV, Halliburton, Tenaris)
More than 300 of the upstream industry's brightest minds gathered Thursday, October 15 for the presentation of the 2015 World Oil Awards winners. This year's awards, which received an overwhelming number of nominations, saw the addition of two new categories-Best EOR Technology Award and Best Well Integrity Technology Award-to ensure appropriate recognition for every aspect of the industry. EFD Program was among the finalists in the Best Health, Safety, Environment/Sustainable Development - Onshore Award. Congratulations to all of the winners!
EFD Societal Team publishes summary of  Eagle Ford Shale work.
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 EFD Sponsors' Meeting
(Sponsors Only)
November 11, 2015 at HARC
If you've not already RSVP'd, please contact Ginny at gjahn@HARCresearch.org!
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EFD Program Workshop
Electrification for Oil and Gas Operations
held on October 22, 2015
EFD hosted a very successful workshop on efforts to find ways to convert gas that would otherwise be flared into electric power for oilfield operations. New technologies being developed to drive drilling and fracturing with increased efficiency, fewer emissions and opportunities to integrate automation were discussed. Presentations for this event are available here.
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Texas A&M will hold their Annual Water & Wastewater Course April 19th & 20th, 2016 "Basics, Challenges, Solutions, and New Technologies"
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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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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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