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SSE welcomes Glasgow bid for 2020 UN climate summit
SSE has welcomed the announcement made by Claire Perry, the UK-nominated president for Conference of the Parties 26 (COP26), that Glasgow is the selected venue for the UK’s bid to host the United Nation’s 2020 climate change summit. Next year’s UN conference is...
Gas-flaring restores oil production target
After receiving approval to burn gas at the Jubilee field, Tullow Oil, the field’s operator, says it is on track to achieve its average production target of 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) for 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June gave Tullow the...
Environment and Health in Electricity Generation
Electricity provision must have regard to minimising environmental and public health effects, both directly from generation and indirectly from obtaining fuels and dealing with wastes. With nuclear power the focus is on uranium mining and nuclear wastes. The health...
ACCRA : EPA develops guidelines to regulate oil and gas industries
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed guidelines to regulate the emerging oil and gas industries in the country. The purpose for these guidelines is to mainstream environmental, health, safety and community issues into the offshore oil and gas...
Health, Safety and Environment in the Oil and Gas Industry: Ghana Sitting on A Time Bomb?
Health, Safety and Environment in the Oil and Gas Industry: Ghana Sitting on A Time Bomb? Author: Ishmael Setsoafia Amegah, Student MSc. Oil and Gas Management, Cert. Managing Safely, IOSH (UK). Email: ishmael.amegah@yahoo.com Introduction There have been a lot of...
Nigeria: Fuel scarcity returns, marketers demand release of N413bn subsidy
Some accredited oil subsidy marketers on Thursday said the failure of Federal Government to release the approved N413 billion subsidy debt was disrupting their fuel importation schedule. The marketers who spoke in an interview with the media said that they were...
T3 thermal plant conundrum
The Takoradi 3 (T3) thermal plant, with an installed capacity of some 132 megawatts, has come under intense scrutiny over the past few While some have attributed the challenges bedevilling the installation to the type of machines, others have blamed the gods of the...
Atlantis Gets $83 Million for World’s Largest Tidal-Stream Farm
Atlantis Resources Corp., a Morgan Stanley-backed maker of tidal turbines, raised about 50 million pounds ($83 million) to start building the world’s largest tidal-stream power plant in Scottish waters. The money was raised from the U.K.’s Department of Energy...
