Sudan's government is benefiting from a booming oil sector; however, despite this, it has to take difficult decisions in the near and medium term including the possibility of Southern Sudan’s secession and the question of whether or not the country should become a full member of the OPEC. Approximately one third of the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the world come from energy production. CO2 free gas-powered plants are based on carbon dioxide being removed from the waste gases and deposited in the ground.

If you were an industrial pump, chances are you would not want to be used in the environmental and geotechnical drilling industry. That’s because there are few applications where a pump is worked harder, beat up more, and forced to process harsher, more abrasive materials. As an example, consider a clay-like substance called bentonite. In many drilling applications, slurry walls are constructed to contain contaminated ground water, divert contaminated ground water from the drinking water intake, direct uncontaminated ground water flow, and provide a barrier for the ground water treatment system. The slurry, usually a mixture of bentonite and water, is pumped into the trench, which prevents the native soil from caving into the excavation.

What happens to an offshore oil platform when all the oil has been extracted? It must be removed of course! This is a huge and costly task, but Aker Marine Contractors (AMC) has developed a new method for removing offshore platforms that should facilitate decommissioning operations for the oil industry. Trelleborg technology makes an important contribution to the new method.

For some time now favourable predictions have been made for the European energy market regarding the growing demand for gas. Oil and gas companies are one of the major emitters, if not the major emitter, of carbon in the world today. With climate change now the greatest environmental challenge, it has become imperative to reduce carbon emissions dramatically in the future. Drilling muds or fluids are complex aqueous or oil-based suspensions designed to fulfil a number of important functions during the oil extraction process. Being able to accurately measure mercury levels in crude oil is vital to ensuring that a plant is operating as safely as possible. However, mercury levels differ from crude to crude, depending on their source. And the analysis process, being laboratory based, takes time.