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What is the best tool for environmental management in oil and gas sector projects?

Tools used by the industry for management of environmental issues.

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Question added by Farzana Altaf , Director , Government
Date Posted: 2013/09/20
Aishat Buter
by Aishat Buter , Environment Officer , Ministry of Environment and Habitat

What I think is the best tool for environmental management in the oil and gas sector projects is Environmental Impact Assessment and Effective Monitoring. Conducting a baseline study; Predicting the impacts on the environment throughout the phases of the project; Putting in place appropriate measures for mitigation; and Implementing an effective follow-up procedure

Farzana Altaf
by Farzana Altaf , Director , Government

we are talking about the tools.

 

Khalid Alhajery
by Khalid Alhajery , Senior Advisor (part time) , General Authority for Meteorology & Environment

The Best tool is to have strict regulatory enforcement of environmental regulations right from the very design phase upto selection of technology , process units and pollution control devices , permitting upto construction phase , start up , and finally operations phase where effective monitoring programs should take place and follow on site visits to ensure that each industry is in compliance with existing environmental rulings and it does not stop here ; there's always room for improvement by working closely with each industry's HSE and Top Management so as to confirm that all operations meet or exceed local sustainability objectives  .

JUNAID KHAN
by JUNAID KHAN , SUPERVISOR , Sui Southern Gas Company Pakistan

A well made policy is the best tool for Environmental management in oil and gas sector orojects

Syed Mustafa Matloob
by Syed Mustafa Matloob , Senior Environmental Consultant , DOME OILFIELD ENGINEERING & SERVICES LLC

Effective implementation of Environmental Management System with a true spirit along with effective periodic monitoring to achieve environmental compliance objectoves

Hazem ElZanan
by Hazem ElZanan , Director of National Solid Waste Management Program & Adviser to Minister of Environment , Ministry of Environment- National Solid Waste Management Program

  • Policy formulation and regulation
  • Baseline environmental surveys
  • Assessmet and approvals
  • Inspection, monitoring & enforecement
  • Services- air, water, waste and power
  • Energency response
  • logisticas and transportation
  • External supplies and services
  • Technical services
  • Training 

Raihan Ahmad
by Raihan Ahmad , Research Associate , Subh-e-Nau

There is a better way to move forward. By ensuring that their front line has a high degree of internal competence in S&E, companies can avoid a lot of dysfunction — and make a step change in safety performance. However, to get to this new model, companies need to drive change in two areas. First, they need to be clear about accountabilities. There are three categories of employees whose new responsibilities should be spelled out:

• Frontline workers, who are directly involved in operating the revenue-generating asset

• S&E advisors, who are assigned to (and co-located at) work sites

• Central S&E staff, who coordinate safety and environmental issues across the entire organization

In the mode advocated, the frontline workers alone are responsible for ensuring safety the advisors don’t play a role in this task. Instead, the advisors’ job is to coach, provide guidance, and drive continuous improvement. The job of the central S&E staff is to stay on top of regulations and develop best practices, and be an expert resource for the S&E advisors. Ideally, many such experts can be located on-site, close to operations. But in a world of scarce resources, it often find that companies are reluctant to distribute their central S&E expert resources because this scarce asset becomes monopolized  and underused by one location, leaving the rest of the organization in deficit. Proactive networks in which S&E professionals share experiences and expertise across the organization solve this problem, but they must be carefully established and diligently managed.

The second change, necessary for the first to work, involves building new capabilities. This means giving frontline workers (at all levels, not just management) the tools and training necessary to execute S&E

 

activities as an integrated part of their daily work. Within S&E, it means developing credible, experienced, independent advisors who understand how to coach the frontline workers and how to get them to challenge their own assumptions. This takes some doing. Typically, those in S&E either have spent their whole careers in the function (in which case they have only a limited knowledge of operations) or are long-tenured operations people who have been transferred to S&E at a late stage of their careers, without a great deal of functional knowledge. Either way, there are gaps to fill.

parvez Arif
by parvez Arif , Deputy Director

The best tool for environmental Management in any sector is the preparation of Site Specific Environmental  Management  Plan and its implementation.

 

PAUL OGWIHI OGBAJI
by PAUL OGWIHI OGBAJI , Coordinator , HSE

Disseminating information on good practice through the development of industry guidelines, codes of practice, checklists etc. And also abiding by International Standards of Organisation laid down standards on Environmental Management System.

Lesley Baloyi
by Lesley Baloyi , Project Environmental Lead , Salam International

Environmental policy and the implementation of the environmental management system.

ILIAS TSAMIS
by ILIAS TSAMIS , Technical , Tomato Processing Manufacture producing

There is not a specific tool for environmental management projects in oil & gas industry, but there is a combination of tools and factors that if one does not operate the effect will be damaged for the industry.

The application of the quality management systems in accordance with the continuous improvement technique is a major factor for the success of the oil & gas industry. 

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