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Most companies recognise the far-reaching effects that health, safety and environmental issues can have on their business. Like us, they believe that long-term competitive success depends on being trusted to meet the expectations of society as well as those of shareholders and stakeholders.
Shell Global Solutions offers a comprehensive suite of tools, technologies and practices to help its customers to respond to new product quality standards and plant emissions legislation.
For instance, with operational expertise across the whole oil and gas supply chain, expertise in integrating new feedstocks such as bio-components and gas to liquids, and a range of licensed technologies, Global Solutions is experienced in working with clients as they seek to develop a strategy to comply with emergent product quality legislation.
To help clients to cut plant carbon dioxide emissions, we developed the carbon and energy management programme. This assesses a client’s energy use and carbon dioxide production and compares its current position with optimum operating practices. Strategies for mitigation are then proposed, which may include energy-efficiency or operational improvement programmes, carbon-abatement technologies, fuel-switching options, carbon dioxide sales and carbon allowance trading and offsets.
In addition, our service portfolio includes methods for recycling treated effluent water for industrial water preparation, preventing uncontrolled discharges or segregating contaminated and clean effluent streams.
We also assist clients in planning and implementing land remediation projects, and offer innovative technologies such as BioRemedy‡, which provides an ecofriendly way of removing methyl tertiary butyl ether from groundwater.
‡BioRemedy is a Shell trademark.
Improving safety is an important business driver, equally as important as controlling capital expenditure and reducing operating costs.
Consultancy on hazard evaluation and risk determination is available to customers across the oil industry – in exploration and production, gas and liquefied natural gas, refining, chemicals, and supply and distribution. It provides access to our hazard and risk assessment methods and a range of software tools founded on extensive research and testing.
Demonstrating the integrity of an installation is a basic requirement for any business with a licence to operate, whether for new facilities or an existing operating unit. How confident are you about the safety and operability of your plant?
Our technical health, safety and environment reviews provide an assessment of all safety, operability and environmental aspects of an installation, in relation to hardware for both new and existing plant.
Other solutions include advice on fire safety and its management, which are primary business requirements.
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Shell Global Solutions can provide assistance, which is based on experience gained through assisting the Shell Group in managing and operating businesses worldwide, at corporate and project level.
Reducing emissions and improving environmental performance are integral to Global Solutions’ technologies and services, and we offer special services designed for management of atmospheric emissions, effluent water, waste, environmental ecology, carbon and energy. We work with clients to help identify and analyse the hazards associated with their industrial activities and to assess the sensitivity of the surrounding environment.
For instance, the Pearl GTL project, which is being built with Qatar Petroleum, is in the Qatari desert and will be the world’s largest gas to liquids (GTL) plant. Careful water management was part of the design from the start. Some 12 million cubic metres of water a year will be generated, mainly by the chemical reaction that turns the natural gas into GTL products. Pearl GTL will have a water-treatment facility that will clean this by-product so that it can be reused for steam, cooling water and other facility needs. As a result, the plant will take no fresh water from this largely arid region and discharge no contaminated water to land or sea.
During the financial planning and design of major projects, we can work with clients to prepare designs that aim to consider the costs of future emissions and provide low emissions. We helped the Shell Group to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 1.7 million tonnes a year using a programme of advanced modelling and benchmarking to identify areas for improvement through reviews targeting energy reduction.
We can also provide recommendations to help executives integrate responsible energy principles into a business through management system alignment and the development of key performance indicators. We also assist enterprises as they address social responsibility matters such as the laying of pipelines in sensitive regions; and provide advice on managing issues such as biodiversity.
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