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The board of BP p.l.c. announced yesterday that Brian Gilvary, BP chief financial officer (CFO), has decided to retire from the company and step down from the BP board on June 30, 2020.

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According to data released from the Texas Oil & Gas Association (TXOGA), the Texas oil and natural gas industry paid more than USD $16 billion in state and local taxes, and state royalties in 2019, which is the highest total in Texas history.

Sergio Costa, Italian Minister of the Environment and the Protection of Land and Sea, and Eni’s CEO, Claudio Descalzi, have signed a preliminary agreement committing Eni to carrying out a program of decarbonization, environmental mitigation, and redevelopment and enhancement at the site in Gela, which is no longer used to produce and process mineral oils.The program will involve dismantling all disused areas across the industrial site over the next 10 years, and giving them new functions.

The MasterTop 1900 range, from the broad Master Builders Solutions® portfolio of advanced flooring solutions, provides flooring systems that are particularly suitable for industrial areas.Part of the 1900 range, the innovative MasterTop 1912 system, meets the highest requirements regarding wear resistance, durability and visual appearance, and scores with low emission values.

CLH Group, a Spanish oil transport and storage company, has approved a sustainability strategy that aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, in alignment with the Paris Agreement and UN Sustainable Development goals.The plan aims to reduce the company’s net emissions of greenhouse gases by 50% by 2025 and become a carbon-neutral organization by 2050.To achieve these goals, CLH is reducing energy consumption by replacing equipment with more efficient devices, incorporating new technological developments and purchasing renewable power or generating its own energy at its facilities.Under the strategy, the CLH2O plan seeks to reduce water consumption, particularly in the cleaning of storage tanks and testing firefighting equipment.

Frost & Sullivan have acknowledged Grundfos’s work to deliver pioneering, sustainable water solutions to a world where millions still lack access to safe water.

Baker Hughes has agreed to purchase 100% of its Texas electricity from renewable sources. In collaboration with Energy Edge Consulting and EDF Energy Services, the agreement combines renewable energy from the White Mesa Wind project, owned and developed by Apex Clean Energy and the Talitha solar project, owned and developed by 7X Energy.

Honeywell recently announced it has acquired Rebellion Photonics, a Houston-based provider of innovative, intelligent, visual gas monitoring solutions that maximize safety, operational performance, emissions mitigation and compliance in the oil and gas, petrochemical and power industries.Rebellion offers the industry's only real-time monitoring platform that visually identifies and quantifies gas releases to quickly detect and analyze leaks and keep workers safe.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued more narrowed terms on grouping manufacturers for air permits.Only chemical plants, paper mills, and mining operations located next to one another will be treated as a single, major source.