current reseach challenges for northern oil and gas activities
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Current Reseach Challenges For Northern Oil and Gas Activities. Bharat Dixit Technical Leader, Operations. U.S. – Canada Oil and Gas Research Forum Anchorage, Alaska 13 November 202. The NEB regulates oil & gas exploration and production activities in the North. Some Challenges. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Current Reseach Challenges For Northern Oil and Gas
Activities
U.S. – Canada Oil and Gas Research ForumAnchorage, Alaska13 November 202
Bharat DixitTechnical Leader, Operations
2The NEB regulates oil & gas exploration and production activities in the North
Some Challenges1. Safety Culture
2. Rigorous risk assessment
3. Baseline information
4. Platform design and station keeping
5. Well condition modeling, monitoring, and control
6. Capping, Containment, and relief well capabilities
7. Effective response capability
Discussion
Contact InformationBharat Dixit Technical Leader, Exploration and
ProductionOperations Business UnitNational Energy Board444 Seventh Avenue SWCalgary, Alberta, T2P 0X8
Phone: 403 299 2792Fax: 403 292 5876Cell: 403 617 3887E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.neb-one.gc.ca
The NEB regulates a project
from start to finish:
Application Phase
DecisionProcess
OperationsPhase
Compliance
Verification
Abandonment Phase
Benefits Plan
Financial Responsibility
Environmental Screening
Company must demonstrate
• Work safely while protecting the environment
• Respond effectively when things go wrong• Proof of financial responsibilityIf a company cannot demonstrate this, it
cannot work
The NEB regulates a project from start to finish
Some Key Community Concerns
• Same Season Relief Well Capability• Dispersants• Spill response capability and infrastructure• Training• Compensation for Northern residents in
the event of a spill• Wildlife/Environmental Monitors
Key Findings of Arctic Review
1. Safety Culture2. Regulatory regimes provides the tools3. Re-affirm same-season relief well policy4. Filing Requirements for applications5. Northerners want to be involved in
planning for future drilling6. Effective response capability is essential
Key findings of Arctic Review1.The root cause of most industrial
accidents, such as blowouts in offshore drilling, is the lack of a broadly shared safety culture
Key findings of Arctic Review2.The NEB’s regulatory regime provides
the tools required to protect the safety of Northerners and workers, and protect the Arctic environment.
Key findings of Arctic Review3.The Board has re-affirmed our Same Season
Relief Well policy.
Key findings of Arctic Review4. The Arctic Review gave us the
essential information we needed to publish our first ever comprehensive set of filing requirements for future applications for offshore wells.
Key findings of Arctic Review5.Northerners have been clear that they
want to be involved in preparing for potential drilling in the future
Key findings of Arctic Review6.Effective response capability is
essential in the event of an accident.