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GE, Statoil Seek Ways to Reduce, Reuse Shale Development Water

July 8, 2015July 8, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric and Statoil’s Sustainability Collaboration has launched the call for entries for its second Open Innovation Challenge focusing on water usage in the development of onshore unconventional oil and gas reservoirs. Through crowd sourcing, the challenge invites companies, innovators and institutions to find innovative ways to both reduce fresh ... Read more »

GE, Statoil Team Up to Reduce Industry’s Environmental Impact

January 29, 2015January 28, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric and Statoil have teamed up to develop more environmentally and economically sustainable technologies for oil and shale gas production that also reduce emissions. This program is aimed at driving an industrial response to some of the biggest challenges facing global oil and gas production, including flaring, CO2 and ... Read more »

Statoil, GE, Ferus Natural Gas Fuels Expand Flare Gas System

September 11, 2014September 10, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A joint venture of General Electric and Ferus Natural Gas Fuels, along with energy company Statoil, says it will expand a pilot project to capture flare gas and use it to power up to six of Statoil’s drill rigs and one frac fleet in North Dakota. The expansion is the ... Read more »

World’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies Announced

January 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Westpac Banking is the most sustainable company in the world, according to Corporate Knights, the Toronto-based media and investment research firm that compiles the annual Global 100 index. The Australia-based financial service provider topped the 2014 iteration of the corporate sustainability index and has a long history of leadership in ... Read more »

Statoil, GE Try to Replace Flaring with Fueling

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Statoil is trying to turn flaring losses into an opportunity. Statoil is working with General Electric in North Dakota’s Bakken oil field on a low-cost prototype to strip natural gas liquids, including butane and propane, out of the gas currently flared from oil operations, the New York Times reports. These ... Read more »

BP, Shell, Statoil Offices Raided in Oil Price Fixing Probe

May 16, 2013May 16, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

European Commission investigators raided the offices of oil companies BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil as well as data collector Platts as part of a larger inquiry into price manipulation of the global crude market. The unannounced inspections were carried out because of concerns the companies may have colluded in ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Shell, BP in Price Probe; Feds ‘Shielded’ Wind Firms

May 15, 2013June 30, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

European Commission antitrust regulators are investigating Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Statoil and price reporting company Platts – a subsidiary of McGraw Hill Financial – over potential oil price manipulation. The probe is examining how price reporting companies help determine the cost of raw materials, Bloomberg says. The federal government is ... Read more »

GEMI Updates Water Tools

February 8, 2013February 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Environmental Management Initiative has updated its GEMI Local Water Tool and the GEMI LWT for Oil and Gas. The green business alliance, whose members include ConocoPhillips, FedEx, Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble and Southern Company, among others, launched the free tools in March 2012. The tools are intended ... Read more »

Umicore Tops Corporate Knights’ 2013 Global 100

January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Belgium-based materials technology and recycling company Umicore tops the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies, according to Corporate Knights, the Toronto-based media and investment research firm that compiles the annual list. Brazil’s Natura Cosmeticos, Norway’s Statoil, Finland’s Neste Oil and Denmark’s Novo Nordisk rounded out the top ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Keystone XL, Edge Products Penalty, Fallow Farmland

January 18, 2013June 30, 2013 by Leon Walker

The Keystone XL pipeline will have a greater impact on climate than previously thought because it will expand the tar sands industry and lead to increased combustion of a dirty form of oil, a study from Oil Change International finds. The report says that current analyses are undercounting carbon emissions ... Read more »

Unilever, Shell, Swiss Re, Skanska Back Carbon Pricing

November 20, 2012November 20, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

More than 100 international corporations including food and consumer products company Unilever, energy giants Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil, re-insurer Swiss Re and construction company Skanska have called on policymakers to develop a clear, transparent and unambiguous global carbon price to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The joint statement, coordinated by ... Read more »

Shell, GE Urge EU to Prop Up Carbon Market

June 29, 2012July 2, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Thirteen of Europe’s biggest companies, including General Electric, Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil, sent a letter urging the European Union to pull 1.4 billion CO2 permits to prop up the carbon market and encourage investment in green technologies. The letter comes ahead of the European Commission’s review of carbon-permit auctioning ... Read more »

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