The world learned again that oil and gas production carries risks, when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April, 2010. A lead safety engineer for Shell speaks about safety strategies, including exposing blind spots.
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“Road safety doesn’t begin with one individual. It really includes everyone,” said Watson.
A Shell safety engineer talks about what happens when a potentially harmful event in oil and natural gas production takes place – a fire or an explosion.
Sipke Mennes talks about what it’s like to be responsible for the safety of large crews of workers on a Shell industrial construction project.
Steve Beckett is a safety expert at Shell. He spoke with EarthSky about some of his company’s methods and goals for keeping people safe in the hazardous workplaces often found in oil and natural gas production.
Schotman said modern gas plants emit up to 60 to 70 percent less CO2 than traditional coal plants. He said natural gas can be chilled and compressed into what’s called liquefied natural gas, or LNG.
GameChanger sponsors entrepreneurs to work on new ways to produce and distribute energy.
Between two and three billion people don’t have access to basic energy services. Bishop said his team looks for solutions that can scale up, or be replicated all over the world.
Shell Springboard has awarded over 1.6 million British pounds to 43 small businesses across the U.K. to help them to implement ideas to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil, gives Shell’s perspective on the most immediate solutions to climate change and the role the U.S. should take in the global efforts to reduce global warming.
















