Oil & Gas Production and Transportation

Companies in the Oil and Gas production and transportation businesses share some common challenges when it comes to handling environmental, health, safety and crisis management. Although the individual facilities may not be too complex, there tend to be hundreds or thousands of geographically distributed facilities - including onshore and offshore drilling platforms, compressor stations, production wells, pipelines and field gas and oil treatment facilities.

ESS has substantial experience in your industry, reflected in our products and solutions to help achieve operational excellence in EHS and assure your social license to operate.

Challenges & Solutions

	Industry Challenge	ESS Solution
	Investor Management. Institutional Investors want to know about your GHG strategy. The Carbon Disclosure Project, backed by over $57 trillion of assets, is one example. Your Board will be asking for a sound climate change strategy, backed by solid information. It takes time to implement GHG accounting, and you can't monitor your strategy without this.	GHG/Carbon Management
	CR Reporting. Gathering and validating the data for your annual non-financial reporting according to GRI and/or IPIECA/API guidelines, and having your outside assessment done on a solid sustainability information management system.	Corporate Responsibility
	GHG Inventory. Doing your GHG inventory and actively estimating and managing your annual (or more frequent) emissions according to the "Compendium of Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation Methodologies for the Oil and Gas Industry."	GHG/Carbon Management
	GHG Strategy. Once you have your "live" inventory working, support business operations by doing forecasting and what-if analysis using the system.	GHG/Carbon Management
	Compliance Auditing. Conduct audits of your gas plants and major compressor stations, track findings as actions to closure, and link required tasks to underlying compliance drivers.	Audit, Task, and Compliance Modules
	Equipment Hierarchy Integration. Synchronize your ESS information system with other plant asset information.	Certified SAP Netweaver™ Interface Certified OSIsoft Pi Interface
	Emergency Planning and Response. Despite your best efforts, bad things can happen. Minimizing the impacts of a crisis event and recovering to normal operations quickly is critical, and this is best done by bringing your overall crisis management program together under one umbrella with our application.	Crisis Management
	Ensure refrigerant regulatory compliance with ozone-depleting substance (ODS) and greenhouse gas (GHG) refrigerants, while increasing system reliability and energy efficiency while saving money on skyrocketing refrigerant prices. Manage recordkeeping, monitoring, testing and reporting for a single facility or corporate wide.	Refrigerant Management

Industry Drivers

	Compliance	Business
	Federal Environmental Agencies (e.g., US EPA, Environment Canada, European Commission DG) State and Provincial Oilfield Agencies (e.g., TX Railroad Commission, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board) Regional Regulation of Global Climate Change (e.g., EU ETS, CA AB32, Alberta Bill 3) Air Emission Regulations (e.g., Colorado Air Quality Control Commission regulations on VOCs) Offshore Discharge Regulations (e.g., North Sea, Gulf of Mexico discharge reporting) Oilfield Waste Regulations (e.g., Alberta Directive O58) Hazardous Waste Regulations (e.g., US RCRA characteristic hazardous wastes) Produced Water Management Regulations (e.g., Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Title 20, Chapter 25) Surface Water Discharge Regulations (e.g., Wyoming DEQ NPDES permitting) Voluntary Reporting Guidelines (e.g., API, CAPP, IPIECA) Refrigerant Management Regulations including Federal (e.g., US Clean Air Act Title VI) and the State/Provincial level (e.g., California Air Resources Board)	Constantly Changing Operations Frequent Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures Widely-Distributed Equipment and Personnel Increasingly Energy-Intensive Production Geo-Political Sensitivities Local Security Challenges Protection of Sensitive Habitats Abandonment Liability Management

Selected Clients

	Client	Description
	El Paso Exploration and Production	Among the top 10 independent natural gas producers in North America with a balanced program throughout the United States, Brazil, and Egypt, producing natural gas, oil, and natural gas liquids. Customer since 2008.
	PetroChina	The largest producer of crude oil and natural gas in China and one of the world’s largest oil companies. Also the largest natural gas transporter and distributor in China, with natural gas pipelines owned and operated by PetroChina totaling 20,590km (12,794 miles) in length. Customer since 2006.
	Spectra Energy	One of North America's premier natural gas infrastructure companies. Customer since 2006.