Wireline Magazine Issue 51 - Summer 2021

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the pandemic, the safety of our workforce has been our paramount concern. As we see the number of personnel working offshore increase, communications like this becomes increasingly more important to ensure the safety of our workforce. We continue to encourage colleagues offshore to respect social distancing where possible, follow the guidelines in place and maintain best hand santisation practice.” Step Change in Safety head of communications Kirstin Gove said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the way that we all work and has made us reassess how we protect people to help minimise them contracting similar viruses in the future. As we move forward in these unprecedented times, we will continue to share examples of how different organisations are reminding colleagues of the guidelines so that, as an industry, we can continue to work together to protect our workforce.” This pack of safety information materials is availabletodownloaddigitallyat:https://oguk. org.uk/product/covid-communications- pack/

when extracting oil and gas.

Industry publishes Methane Action Plan to reduce

The Methane Action Plan sets out six actions in total, with four new actions for industry. These include reducing methane by 50 per cent compared with a 2018 baseline, committing to 0.20 per cent methane intensity by 2025 and stopping all routine flaring by 2030. It will also ensure all companies create individual, asset-based action plans by the end of 2022.

upstream emissions

OGUK has published a blueprint for helping the sector reduce methane emissions, and one of the first key deliverables of the North Sea Transition Deal, agreed in March between industry and the UK Government. Methane is one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases, having up to 80 times the impact than that of carbon emissions. Offshore installations release these emissions through a process called flaring and venting for primarily safety reasons

Read the Methane Action Plan in full at oguk. org.uk.

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