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Monitoring success and making progress
In a production facility control room, the facility’s managers look daily at environmental data, using it to make decisions that minimize the facility’s effect on the environment.
Greenhouse gases are one consideration. For example, emissions from gas flaring contribute to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. At some sites, these flares burn excess gases, and we monitor them to ensure they burn safely and with minimal effect on the environment. Meanwhile, new methods that require less or even no flaring are in the works.
Discharges into water are another concern. Water that comes up with oil and gas from the reservoirs is purified in a special facility before being returned to the sea, but cleansing the ‘mud’ and rock cuttings recovered during drilling is much more difficult. Often these are shipped to land for processing and safe disposal.
What goes up must come down
A production platform is not a permanent structure. Our platforms are built to be strong, but they’re also built to be taken apart cleanly and effectively when they are no longer needed.
Decommissioning a large facility can take two years or more. Careful planning is needed, and where appropriate, we ask governments and local experts to advise on the best possible approach. Some facilities can be moved to a new location for a second life. Others must be dismantled piece by piece, although we aim to recycle or reuse close to 100% of the pieces.