Health, Safety & Environment

The UK’s Health and Safety regulations and its Environmental legislation sets standards that are world class.

The UK’s Health and Safety regulations and its Environmental legislation sets standards that are world class. Consequently, UK companies work to very demanding health, safety and environment legislation. The culture developed by complying with that legislation is carried by UK companies when they go out into the world. UK companies working in the oil and gas sector are both meticulous and expert in carrying out risk assessments and drawing up safety cases, to ensure as far as is humanly possible that the environment is unharmed by their activities. 

The UK offers world-class environmental goods and services, with long-established roots in wastewater treatment, solid waste management, marine and air pollution control, land remediation, recovery and re-cycling, environmental monitoring and analysis.

The UK marine pollution control industry provides a wealth of environmental technologies for contingency planning and emergency response to oil spills, spray systems for dispersants, booms and skimmers for containment and collection of surface oil, and wastewater treatment systems. Innovative technology can handle large and small spills, produced water discharges, chemical and waste management, seabed disturbance during construction, and decommissioning issues at the end of field life. The world’s largest oil spill response organisation, UK Spill was founded in the UK and serves major oil companies across the globe. Environmental drilling support equipment packages are tailored to meet specific needs and ensure easy deployment in high and low-risk environments. Specialist spill response technology, training programmes and services are used to tackle incidents across the world.

As a recognised centre of excellence for environmental control technology, the UK also provides a diverse range of air pollution control plant for handling volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions and odour abatement in petrochemical, refining and gas processing plants. Innovative pollution control systems include regenerative thermal oxidisers for combustion of hydrocarbons, recuperative thermal oxidisers, direct fired and catalytic oxidisers and chemical scrubbing equipment.

  

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