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The University of Texas at Austin, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), ExxonMobil, the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and Pioneer Natural Resources Company are collaborating on a network of sensors for emissions monitoring across the oil and gas process industry.Project Astra seeks to develop a sensor network that would continuously measure emissions of the greenhouse gas methane to locate potential leaks.

Phillips 66 has published its 2020 Sustainability Report titled “Greater Good,” making it digitally available to employees, communities and investors at www.phillips66.com/Sustainability.This year’s report builds on the company’s previous disclosures, proactively sharing Phillips 66’s 2019 performance across its four sustainability focus areas of operating excellence, environmental stewardship, social responsibility and financial performance.The report now includes a chapter on climate change and a Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) analysis.

In May 2020, Utkilen, a shipping company, received delivery of their new vessel, Saltstraum, which is now ship number 4,000 worldwide in operation with Framo pumps on board.Framo has delivered pumps for chemical tankers since the end of the 1960s.

CRANE I&S, a manufacturer of instrumentation and sampling products, has announced the new expansion of its websites. The improved sites, www.hoke.com, www.goreg.com, www.texassampling.com., encompass all of the same product information as the previous websites, but also contain detailed product catalogues for all of its brands, including features and benefits, technical menus, and flow formula calculators.

BASF SE and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC have released a new highly energy efficient amine gas treatment technology named OASE® sulfexx™.

A large number of environmental monitoring requirements have been suspended for Alberta's entire energy industry.The Alberta Energy Regulator ("AER") issued Decisions 20200520A and 20200520B suspending certain monitoring requirements for oil sands operators and conventional oil and gas producers under the Oil and Gas Conservation Act ("OGCA").

Strengthening its commitment to energy innovation, Southern Company, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has announced an expanded focus for the National Carbon Capture Center.

Fluor Corporation (FLR) announced that it was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for Minnkota Power Cooperative’s (Minnkota) Project Tundra, a carbon capture, utilization, and storage retrofit project at the Milton R.

Taking place on October 6th and 7th, 2020 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX, the Managing Aging Plants USA Conference & Expo 2020 will be the meeting point of the year for Principle Engineers, Materials Engineers, Corrosion Engineers, Metallurgists, Reliability Inspectors, Asset Integrity Managers, and Maintenance Directors to explore a vast range of subjects related to the management and lifecycles of aging plants and infrastructures.

The U.S. Administration has updated air-quality regulations for offshore drilling in sections of the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of the North Slope Borough of Alaska.The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released a final rule on May 14 that updates air pollution controls for most offshore oil and gas operations, without extensive changes proposed by the previous administration.The final rule makes a few changes in specifications, such as replacing the old standard for total suspended particulate matter (PM) with the PM2.5 and PM10 standards of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).